• rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    The phrase “SQL programmers” is so fucking weird. SQL isn’t a programming language. It’s a query language. You don’t “program” things with SQL. You utilize SQL as a component of programs for data insertion and lookup, but the actual logic of execution is done in a programming language. Unless you’re doing Oracle PL/SQL, in which case why are you giving money to Oracle?

    Edit: Damn, this comment made people mad.

      • rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml
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        11 months ago

        So is Tex. And, yet, I still don’t put it under the “programming languages I know” section on my resume. Probably because it’s not a programming language.

        • corship@feddit.de
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          11 months ago

          Where you put it is not my problem.

          The general census is that latex actually is an example of programming languages sharing semantics with non programming languages and not being intend as a programming language.

          since you linked to wikipedia:

          The domain of the language is also worth consideration. Markup languages like XML, HTML, or troff, which define structured data, are not usually considered programming languages.[12][13][14] Programming languages may, however, share the syntax with markup languages if a computational semantics is defined. XSLT, for example, is a Turing complete language entirely using XML syntax.[15][16][17] Moreover, LaTeX, which is mostly used for structuring documents, also contains a Turing complete subset.[18][19]

          Programming language

          Sometimes even non Turing complete languages are considered a programming language but Turing completeness usually is the criteria agreed upon:

          The majority of practical programming languages are Turing complete,[5] and all Turing complete languages can implement the same set of algorithms. ANSI/ISO SQL-92 and Charity are examples of languages that are not Turing complete, yet are often called programming languages.[6][7] However, some authors restrict the term “programming language” to Turing complete languages.[1][8]