trelane hates software: SQL

• From: Mark Fowler
  Date: 23:58 on 22 Mar 2004
  Subject: SQL
  
  I've written this email several times, trying to find a way of expressing
  exactly what is wrong with SQL.  I find I am not up to the task.  It sucks
  in so many ways I could write an entire article on it.
  
  So, in summary:
  
      SQL SUCKS SO BADLY THAT FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS NASA HAVE
          BEEN MISTAKENLY INVESTIGATING IT AS A BLACK HOLE
  
  I thank you.
  
  Mark.
  
  
  

• From: peter (Peter da Silva)
  Date: 00:28 on 23 Mar 2004
  Subject: Re: SQL
  
  >     SQL SUCKS SO BADLY THAT FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS NASA HAVE
  >         BEEN MISTAKENLY INVESTIGATING IT AS A BLACK HOLE
  
  Coming from a Perl user that's deep damnation indeed.
  
  I've just come back to SQL after having successfully stayed clean
  and sober for what must be 20 years (I must be figuring wrong, I'm
  not allowed to be old enough to say things like that), and I haven't
  yet recalled what terrors lurked in the depths of a SELECT. I'm
  sure I'll start waking up in strange places soon enough.
  
  
  

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