Inventor of SQL talks about how they come up with the language

Casual user lmao

That got me too 😆

The issue with “walk up and read” languages is they’re only easy to read up to a certain level of complexity, after which their “naturality” becomes their doom. Which I guess SQL is a perfect example of. Still, one of the most crucial languages to have ever been invented, of course.

regex inventors meanwhile

It is one of my favorite languages.

It was somewhat a kind of natural language before AI!

That's Don Chamberlin; here's the full interview:

It seems they failed

I love this quote by Bjarne Stroustrup (C++ creator) “There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

Casual User cannot do sql. An unfriendly language that breaks away from general programming rules and susrvives because of momentum, is also a burden for programmers.