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0 pointseverybodyknows4y ago0 comments

From your link, a remarkable irony:

>The SQL language is meant to abstract away the procedural steps that are needed to query a database

Leaky abstractions, all the way down?

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I would definitely say SQL is leaky. Certainly not fully declarative. I think it’s important to have escape hatches though - if you have to be leaky you may as well be intentional about it.

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0 pointseverybodyknows4y ago0 comments

From your link, a remarkable irony:

>The SQL language is meant to abstract away the procedural steps that are needed to query a database

Leaky abstractions, all the way down?

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klysm4y ago

I would definitely say SQL is leaky. Certainly not fully declarative. I think it’s important to have escape hatches though - if you have to be leaky you may as well be intentional about it.

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