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JetBrains working on higher-abstraction programming language (www.infoworld.com)
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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's a long list of words I have never heard of. I do like how SQL somehow fits the bill of a 4GL.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    It makes sense, you aren't telling sql server how to do something, you just tell it what you want and it figures it out. You aren't even doing procedural stuff at that point.

    I like the RAD tools being qualified as 4GLs as I haven't really thought of them that way but again it makes sense.

    Also screw PowerBuilder. I am sorry if anyone in this thread likes it...but it is seriously awful.

    Edit: Before people jump me, I do know that you have some influence over execution plans with join orders, hints, etc.. but by and large you don't tell SQL Server how to do it's job.

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