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0 pointsbombcar5y ago0 comments

I think it might affect some languages more than others - perl is just line noise in any language, but I could see SQL "dialects" in various languages.

But even then I feel that in that case non-english speakers might have a bit of an advantage as they don't assume things about SQL because it doesn't look like their native language.

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qsort5y ago

> but I could see SQL "dialects" in various languages.

IIRC AppleScript used to support French, but it's an unpopular variant of an unpopular language, so I'm not really sure how many people actually used it.

> But even then I feel that in that case non-english speakers might have a bit of an advantage as they don't assume things about SQL because it doesn't look like their native language.

Yeah, the sooner you realize it's the abstract and not the concrete syntax you're actually manipulating, the better. IME (natural) language is just not a barrier at all.

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