Comment on What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQLparentComments−tester7564yAll non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...−everybodyknows4yFrom your link, a remarkable irony:The SQL language is meant to abstract away the procedural steps that are needed to query a databaseLeaky abstractions, all the way down?−klysm4yI would definitely say SQL is leaky. Certainly not fully declarative. I think it’s important to have escape hatches though - if you have to be leaky you may as well be intentional about it.
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https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...
From your link, a remarkable irony:
Leaky abstractions, all the way down?
I would definitely say SQL is leaky. Certainly not fully declarative. I think it’s important to have escape hatches though - if you have to be leaky you may as well be intentional about it.