[Lyngbakr]

    > Some popular DSLs most software developers use on a regular basis include Regular Expressions for pattern matching, AWK for text transformation or Standard Query Language for interacting with databases.

Isn't it Structured Query Language? Or are both variants used?

[shakna]

> In the early days of the system there was divided preference between Standard Query Language and Structured Query Language but it did not make a whole lot of difference since most people most of the time called it by the acronym SQL. Now the overwhelming but not complete preference is for Structured Query Language.

[0] https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/sql.htm

[Lyngbakr]

Thanks for that!

[randomdata]

Strictly, it is just SQL. It doesn't stand for anything. The project was originally known as SEQUEL, a fun word play on QUEL (from the Ingress/Postgres camp), but trademark issues saw it later lose the vowels.

"Structured Query Language" is a so-called backronym. "Standard Query Language" fits the pattern as well. As does "Super Quick Lookup", if you want to have some fun with it.