[theLiminator]

> The second one is also stupid but you had to be there in the very very beginning to have stopped it. The inception of the concept of databases should have been created such that any query you run on it needs to be compiled to run on the database and is thus statically checked. This is something that can easily be done but wasn’t done and now we all just make do with testing.

This is a good point, I've never really thought about this carefully before, but that makes so much sense.

[threethirtytwo]

Yeah it's the stupidest thing but nobody even thinks about this. Everyone I talk to thinks SQL is the greatest thing ever. I mean it's the greatest because there's no obviously superior alternative.