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		bambax 64 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Elo – A data expression language which compiles to... SQL was also initially built for end users and not considered "code". I'm not sure we should continue to stack supposedly simple languages one on top of the other for ever. Why not learn SQL instead?

aerzen 64 days ago [–]

Because we already have databases we have to query and they speak only a dialect of SQL. If there were a lower-level machine-friendly instruction set for databases, it should target that.

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