On 08/01/08 16:46 Peter da Silva wrote:
On 2008-01-08, at 10:33, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
The irony is wonderful!
You'll have to elaborate.
The English-Likeness monster doesn't live in keywords, it lives in
syntax and semantics.
You left our the part I quoted:
On 07/01/08 21:53 Peter da Silva wrote:
On 2008-01-07, at 13:49, Jeremy Stephens wrote:
Why is the UPDATE syntax so different from INSERT?
Because the people designing SQL were devotees of the English-Likeness Monster.
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When I'm generating SQL I just maintain a list of columns and values ...
SQL was designed to resemble a human language, yet you (and many others,
myself included) prefer to generate it with a computer program.
