[fpc-pascal] Working on a new way to educate people about pascal

[Steve Litt]

Wols Lists via fpc-pascal said on Sat, 31 Dec 2022 15:07:41 +0000

>On 31/12/2022 08:37, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal wrote:
>> Anthony Walter via fpc-pascal said on Thu, 29 Dec 2022 07:31:57 -0500
>>   
>>> @youngman
>>>
>>> "I'm a database guy with maybe 30 years experience, I'm new to SQL
>>> and oh my god is it an over-complicated monster ..."  
>> 
>> I'll say this: It certainly doesn't help that there are different
>> variations of SQL.
>>   
>:-)
>
>Well, there are plenty different variations of English. And the real 
>English (that is, what we speak in England) isn't even one language! 
>It's several different languages that (for the most part) share
>similar grammar and vocabulary.
>
>If that's not a problem, why should the dialects of SQL be a problem. 

Because unless AI is involved, unlike human interaction, there's no
such thing as "you know what I mean."

>After all, we have a decent dictionary. It's called the Internet :-)

Oh great. So we all need separate cheat sheets for Postgres, MariaDB,
Oracle, and SQLite. And let's keep in mind that although the line count
on SQL programs is tiny, the debugging can get quite complicated.
Heaven help you if you use single quotes instead of doublequotes or
vice versa.

Hey, if different versions aren't a problem, I have a great idea. Let's
go back to exclusively using assembler language, with a different set of
op-codes and grammar for each processor. After all, we have a decent
dictionary. It's called the Internet :-)

SteveT

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