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fixed a typo: s/favors/flavors/ (which arguably should be "flavours" ;)
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| --- www/theory1.wiki | ||
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| @@ -95,11 +95,11 @@ | ||
| 95 | 95 | as its scripting language. |
| 96 | 96 | |
| 97 | 97 | This misunderstanding likely arises because people fail |
| 98 | 98 | to appreciate that SQL is a programming language. People are taught that SQL |
| 99 | 99 | is a "query language" as if that were somehow different from a |
| 100 | -"programming language". But they really are two different favors of the | |
| 100 | +"programming language". But they really are two different flavors of the | |
| 101 | 101 | same thing. I find that people do better with SQL if they think of |
| 102 | 102 | SQL as a programming language and each statement |
| 103 | 103 | of SQL is a separate program. SQL is a peculiar programming language |
| 104 | 104 | in that one uses SQL to specify <i>what</i> to compute whereas in |
| 105 | 105 | most other programming languages one specifies <i>how</i> |
| 106 | 106 |
| --- www/theory1.wiki | |
| +++ www/theory1.wiki | |
| @@ -95,11 +95,11 @@ | |
| 95 | as its scripting language. |
| 96 | |
| 97 | This misunderstanding likely arises because people fail |
| 98 | to appreciate that SQL is a programming language. People are taught that SQL |
| 99 | is a "query language" as if that were somehow different from a |
| 100 | "programming language". But they really are two different favors of the |
| 101 | same thing. I find that people do better with SQL if they think of |
| 102 | SQL as a programming language and each statement |
| 103 | of SQL is a separate program. SQL is a peculiar programming language |
| 104 | in that one uses SQL to specify <i>what</i> to compute whereas in |
| 105 | most other programming languages one specifies <i>how</i> |
| 106 |
| --- www/theory1.wiki | |
| +++ www/theory1.wiki | |
| @@ -95,11 +95,11 @@ | |
| 95 | as its scripting language. |
| 96 | |
| 97 | This misunderstanding likely arises because people fail |
| 98 | to appreciate that SQL is a programming language. People are taught that SQL |
| 99 | is a "query language" as if that were somehow different from a |
| 100 | "programming language". But they really are two different flavors of the |
| 101 | same thing. I find that people do better with SQL if they think of |
| 102 | SQL as a programming language and each statement |
| 103 | of SQL is a separate program. SQL is a peculiar programming language |
| 104 | in that one uses SQL to specify <i>what</i> to compute whereas in |
| 105 | most other programming languages one specifies <i>how</i> |
| 106 |