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ars on Feb 23, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why functional programming doesn't catch on

I'm pretty sure that SQL is actually set programming, not functional or imperative.

davidmathers on Feb 23, 2009 [–]

SQL is like a swiss army knife for data. It includes some relational algebra, some relational calculus, and some functional programming.

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