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by jhgb 23 days ago
No, database servers solve that problem. That the unnecessarily COBOL-like SQL ended up being the primary interface to them is simply an unfortunate accident of history.
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There have to be some limitations on the language for this to work. For example, there must be no way to specify a neverending loop or to lock something and forget to unlock, an so on.