SQL and Prolog were also cited, but yes, nothing very deep (which I think is fine for this talk)
I would love to see the programs that are generated from this philosophy.
I would love to see the programs that are generated from this philosophy.
I find it a little funny sometimes to hear all these "web scale" folks put down SQL, and then praise something like MongoDB because you can do map/reduce.
I saw a presentation by the author of the Lift framework in Scala and he made a bit of a joke saying "gosh...all this FP stuff...the folks who created SQL heard about that a long time ago".
the only person out there who thinks
SQL has a certain beauty and elegance
On the subject of SQL and Clojure, ClojureQL provides an alternate relational data manipulation language that compiles to SQL. It's not just a different syntax; it allows some composability not found in SQL. The syntax does help though, especially in conjunction with the thrush operator.