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Google's new pipe syntax in SQL

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Re: Google's new pipe syntax in SQL

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Post by anonzzzies » Sun, Sep 01, 2024, 5:33 AM UTC

mrits wrote: post #149

anonzzzies wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not having LINQ is a terrible inconvenience everywhere. Most languages have libs that try to hack something similar, but it usually simply isn't.

It's a lot easier to design a good DSL when it doesn't have to be compatible with anything

Well, .NET was already used a lot when it was built in a few decades ago.

Re: Google's new pipe syntax in SQL

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Post by pxc » Mon, Sep 02, 2024, 4:16 PM UTC

fridental wrote: post #122

For the sake of God, please fucking stop inventing new pipe languages. LINQ: exists Splunk query language: exists KQL: exists MongoDB query language: exists PRQL: exists

LINQ, Splunk, and KQL are all proprietary. For the purposes of setting new standards, they might as well not exist.

PRQL is the only real entrant in your list when it comes to adding a pipelining syntax to a language for relational queries in a way that others can freely build on.

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