Comment by huahaiy
1 day ago
It is older than C. It is based on COBOL era idea of structured English as a computer language. There are better alternatives, e.g. Datalog.
1 day ago
It is older than C. It is based on COBOL era idea of structured English as a computer language. There are better alternatives, e.g. Datalog.
I'm curious if you've personally used datalog in any projects. I've written some prolog, but haven't ever worked with datalog.
Minigraph looks promising for some introductory goofing around.
These kind of comments don't age well in the days of AI programming using English.
COBOL is indeed the spiritual predecessor of SQL. We have learned a lot since then about PL design, to put it mildly.
Yes, we now programm in straight English, and hope the machine gets it right.
pretty sure clang is older than sql. hal agrees.