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A response to this article, I Don't Want to Teach my Garbage DSL, either, was discussed here on HN almost two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20059029

In that discussion, I made this comment¹, which I still stand by:

If you’re developing a DSL which is just a query language, you are reinventing the wheel, and you should ask yourself if any benefit of your language over SQL is worth the effort of all your users to learn your new query language. It may be worth it of your data can not be usefully be modeled by tables; e.g. document query languages like XQuery and even simple XPath are useful and can not be easily replaced with SQL.

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20059337



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