• radish@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    Curious how you decided what goes where, I’d hardly consider SQL a “Toy Lang” as opposed to a “System Lang”

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldOP
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      That it’s an interpreted language rather than a compiled one. Bytecode and interpreted langs get the Toy Lang treatment. At least SQL has floating points.

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        3 days ago

        So, it’s an almost useless dimension with misleading names? Yeah, it’s a good “political compass”.

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        That’s… a really dumb definition. And why is C# right in the middle but Java’s towards obsolete and toy lang? They both compile to byte code and are overall extremely similar.

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        Nearly my entire company’s infrastructure is written in Python and Go so I take offense (even if I would prefer to write anything else other than Python, mostly because I like proper typing )