Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want
On Sat, 2019-10-19 at 09:46 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> deloptes writes:
> > SQL comes everywhere handy...
>
> SQL is certainly handy, but I don't consider it a programming language
> (likewise HTML).
About 20 years ago I wrote and tested a match-merge update program with
(as I remember) the then current version of Oracle SQL. It ran to about
a screen full of text, but depended on all input validatation having
been done and no data item transformations during execution. Couldn't
persuade the users to take it on, though, as they were committed to
using C.
>
> If you *do* consider HTML a programming language the crawling horrors
> that most Web sites send out make the worst BASIC spaghetti balls look
> like something out of IBM Federal Systems.
Tom Dial
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