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Comment by vkazanov

6 months ago

I know the story of System R really well.

It was a breakthrough system is almost all aspects. It defined what dbs would look like both internally and externally for decades.

In many ways SQL is like C: good for what authors wanted it to be but severe consequences much later.

But the history doesn't care. SQL (and C) still have many-many years ahead of them.

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