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Bad metaphor: There is no evidence for Dvorak's technical superiority to QWERTY, neither is there for Esperanto over other languages.
Learn cj date and codd those days before even oracle is a thing. It is such a hard sell we have to go through IMS and network db and the only rdb is dbase II. At least we get db2 before we do foxbase.
>If the world worked differently, we wouldn’t still be writing on QWERTY keyboards, or speaking English; technically superior alternatives like Dvorak and Esperanto would have taken over. Bad metaphor: There is no evidence for Dvorak's technical superiority to QWERTY, neither is there for Esperanto over other languages.
Outside Western Europe, Esperanto makes rather little sense. It's highly regular, which is nice — but, say, Japanese is also highly regular.
>If the world worked differently, we wouldn’t still be writing on QWERTY keyboards, or speaking English; technically superior alternatives like Dvorak and Esperanto would have taken over. Bad metaphor: There is no evidence for Dvorak's technical superiority to QWERTY, neither is there for Esperanto over other languages.
Esperanto isn't intended to be superior. It's value is on it being equally foreign yet approachable for all the salient parties and therefore a conceivable acceptable neutral turf for everyone to share.
Ironically, the case for Dvorak keyboards is kind of the opposite: QWERTY was intentionally designed to avoid jams, which if anything biased towards making it more difficult.
It's not so much technical superiority as having a design objective that is more appropriate for the problem space.
One can similarly argue about whether "QUEL" is really technically superior to "SQL", but the design objective is (at least as perceived by the author) better aligned with the solution space.
>If the world worked differently, we wouldn’t still be writing on QWERTY keyboards, or speaking English; technically superior alternatives like Dvorak and Esperanto would have taken over. Bad metaphor: There is no evidence for Dvorak's technical superiority to QWERTY, neither is there for Esperanto over other languages.
I think the "technically superior" bit wasn't really the right choice of words. Esperanto isn't intended to be superior. It's value is on it being equally foreign yet approachable for all the salient parties and therefore a conceivable acceptable neutral turf for everyone to share. Ironically, the case for Dvorak keyboards is kind of the opposite: QWERTY was intentionally designed to avoid jams, which if anything bia…
This was not even attempted; Esperanto is a Romance language. Unless you think the only salient parties are Spain, France, Portugal, Italy, and Latin America, this "value" does not exist and was not a goal.
MySQL sort of solves this problem with a operator, which I wish was the default for ORMs to use.
There are a lot of other minor nitpicks but a lot of criticisms come down to the actual RDMS not SQL itself.
Really the the only issue I have with SQL is NULL != NULL. This creates an impedance mismatch with most languages... MySQL sort of solves this problem with a operator, which I wish was the default for ORMs to use. There are a lot of other minor nitpicks but a lot of criticisms come down to the actual RDMS not SQL itself.
>If the world worked differently, we wouldn’t still be writing on QWERTY keyboards, or speaking English; technically superior alternatives like Dvorak and Esperanto would have taken over. Bad metaphor: There is no evidence for Dvorak's technical superiority to QWERTY, neither is there for Esperanto over other languages.
I think the "technically superior" bit wasn't really the right choice of words. Esperanto isn't intended to be superior. It's value is on it being equally foreign yet approachable for all the salient parties and therefore a conceivable acceptable neutral turf for everyone to share. Ironically, the case for Dvorak keyboards is kind of the opposite: QWERTY was intentionally designed to avoid jams, which if anything bia…
Minor quibble that this is not true (or at least strongly disputed).
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/fact-of-fiction-...
>If the world worked differently, we wouldn’t still be writing on QWERTY keyboards, or speaking English; technically superior alternatives like Dvorak and Esperanto would have taken over. Bad metaphor: There is no evidence for Dvorak's technical superiority to QWERTY, neither is there for Esperanto over other languages.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the "technically superior" bit wasn't really the right choice of words. Esperanto isn't intended to be superior. It's value is on it being equally foreign yet approachable for all the salient parties and therefore a conceivable acceptable neutral turf for everyone to share. Ironically, the case for Dvorak keyboards is kind of the opposite: QWERTY was intentionally designed to avoid jams, which if anything bia…
> Esperanto isn't intended to be superior. It's value is on it being equally foreign yet approachable for all the salient parties and therefore a conceivable acceptable neutral turf for everyone to share. This was not even attempted; Esperanto is a Romance language. Unless you think the only salient parties are Spain, France, Portugal, Italy, and Latin America, this "value" does not exist and was not a goal.
And it was pretty much a goal of its creator to be both familiar and foreign for different european language families, as he had experienced division in Poland between speakers of those different families and wanted to have something more universal to gather them all together.