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Old fashions

Posted Sep 27, 2011 7:59 UTC (Tue) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: PostgreSQL and the SQL standards process by butlerm
Parent article: PostgreSQL and the SQL standards process

Maybe people who used to be COBOL programmers? Actually, syntax that tries to mimic natural language used to be a very common style in old domain-specific languages, the theory being that it makes them self-documenting.

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