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that was from 35 to 40 years ago.

today:

s/COBOL/SQL

and the statement is still true, except that many devs nowadays are JS-only, and are too scared or lazy as shit to learn another, relatively simple language like SQL. ("it's too much work". wtf do you think a job is. it's another name for work.)

because, you know, "we have to ship yesterday" (which funnily enough, is always true, like "tomorrow never comes").



SQL is straightforward enough, but its not the sketchy part. taking down the database so other people cant use it by running a test query is the bad part.

the explains are not nearly as straightforward to read, and the process of writing SQL is to write the explain yourself, and then try to coax the database into turning SQL you write into that explain. its a much less pleasent LLM chat experience




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