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by ErwinSmout 1513 days ago
"And yet an API is kinda desirable."

Yeah. however I may not live to see the day when that desire, which I agree is felt by 99.99% of the developer community (hell, even by 99.99% of the end user community because don't come and tell me that what that community is feeling isn't some sort of sense that "the developers just can't offer us any answers"), actually gets to be fulfilled.

"compiling to a standard AST"

I think that what you might be failing to appreciate is that achieving that requires a "standard algebra", and that no such thing exists at this present day.

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> I think that what you might be failing to appreciate is that achieving that requires a "standard algebra", and that no such thing exists at this present day.

Oh I appreciate that. What I've in mind is something like the SQL standard (which isn't exactly universally adhered to) of QL ASTs.