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Comment by BaculumMeumEst | Hacker News Reader

I wonder if SQL will be able to catch up to C#. Maybe they’ll add the English language next year so I can see how popular it is compared to Javascript.

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Will never happen as long as the SQL team refuses to add pattern matching.

Pig Latin should be counted, as it is an algorithmically altered language, which makes it comparable to a programming language

And JSON, since it looks like programming spaghetti.

JSON and YAML are used as programming languages for e.g. Docker, expressing conditionals, variables, etc. I don't like it :p.

JSON and YAML aren't programming languages. You can build a programming language on top of them, just as Lisp is built on top of S-expressions, but the underlying data representation isn't a programming language alone.

Most SQL dialects are full blown languages, so it isn't like what happens with HTML and CSS, regardless of the sarcasm.

What does "add the English language" mean??

Parent is making fun of the fact that SQL is not a programming language similar to C and does not compete with it.

It is like comparing the popularity of HTML vs. CSS.

English is Turing complete and is meant to be processed by a human or AI compiler, but you wouldn't compare it with Javascript.

Maybe using English as a programming language ("transpiled" to a lower level language using an LLM)?

The fact that one programs ChatGPT with the English (or other human) language perhaps.

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