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[OT-Humor] A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

This blogpost is hilarious!  So, how would you write the entry on SQL?  Here's my shot - "Initially developed in 1979 to support IBMs first relational database, System R, the Arkansas faction lost their bid to have the new SQL language pronounced 'SQUEEL'."

Enjoy!

-Kevin


Published Wednesday, May 13, 2009 1:34 PM by KKline
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Capt. Jean-Luc Pikachu said:

There's an extra space at the end of your link causing a 404.

May 19, 2009 11:01 AM
 

KKline said:

The link should be fixed now.  Thanks for the catch...

May 19, 2009 11:17 AM

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About KKline

Kevin Kline is Technical Strategy Manager for the SQL Server business unit at Quest Software. Kevin was the original architect and dev manager for many of Quest's SQL Server tools. Prior to Quest, Kevin worked as an enterprise DBA for a variety of large corporations and government agencies.

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