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Anyone else code in Pick (either for UniVerse or UniData)?
Purely to pay the bills though.
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I know to work with Unibasic and Unidata but i am a beginner..
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I wonder how the survey results would fair on a devsite dedicated to, say, VB, or SharePoint, or functional programming languages. Implying, I think the results are biased to the readership of CP. 
Marc
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#1 Web language not being listed, well
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Indeed, that's my paycheck right there.
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http://jtyost2.wordpress.com
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In Germany most people would have answered Java I guess.
Don't try it, just do it! 
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Code Project is a Microsoft-centric site though.
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It is the same case in Malaysia. (although I am not in the statistic.)
Sonork 100.41263:Anthony_Yio
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Interestingly enough, the wiki article gets it wrong in the first paragraph and then gets it correct further down the page.
Need custom software developed? I do C# development and consulting all over the United States.
If you don't ask questions the answers won't stand in your way.
Doing a job is like selecting a mule, you can't choose just the front half xor the back half so when you ask me to do a job don't expect me to do it half-assed.
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I think it is, particularly when including extensions like Transact-Sql and PL/SQL, but you can't write a whole useful application in it, so it probably shouldn't be on the list. (I use a lot of SQL, but I didn't vote for it.)
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That is kind of the point, T-SQL and PL/SQL are not part of SQL. That is like embedding C# or .NET code in Sql Server and calling the result SQL.
I use SQL almost as much as I use C# and I firmly believe you could probably cure cancer with it using the right query but I would not calling it a programming language.
Need custom software developed? I do C# development and consulting all over the United States.
If you don't ask questions the answers won't stand in your way.
Doing a job is like selecting a mule, you can't choose just the front half xor the back half so when you ask me to do a job don't expect me to do it half-assed.
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At least it doesn't have goto. 
Wikipedia: "A programming language is a machine-readable artificial language designed to express computations that can be performed by a machine, particularly a computer."
SQL satisfies that.
Wikipedia: "Computer programs (also software programs, or just programs) are instructions for a computer."
Check.
Merriam Webster: "a sequence of coded instructions that can be inserted into a mechanism (as a computer)"
Check.
SQL is not a general purpose programming language, but it does what it was designed to do very well.
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From the same article:
All Turing complete languages can implement the same set of algorithms. ANSI/ISO SQL and Charity are examples of languages that are not Turing complete, yet often called programming languages
It is my firm belief that calling SQL a programming language is a misnomer that can and should be avoided.
Need custom software developed? I do C# development and consulting all over the United States.
If you don't ask questions the answers won't stand in your way.
Doing a job is like selecting a mule, you can't choose just the front half xor the back half so when you ask me to do a job don't expect me to do it half-assed.
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Turing is dead.
Fine, so it's not a Turing-complete programming language, big fat hairy deal.
(Note to self: Look up Turing-complete programming languages, cross reference to my telnet scripting language.)
P.S.
Wikipedia also says: "1999 SQL:1999 SQL3 Added regular expression matching, recursive queries, triggers, support for procedural and control-of-flow statements, non-scalar types, and some object-oriented features."
So it's becoming completer.
modified on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 7:25 PM
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As long as it pays the bills, you can call it anything you like?
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good reply .. i appreciate it 
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"I don't know what you're good at, honey, but if it's at the Cheetah, it ain't dancin'." -- Showgirls
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Oh, and...
I would also include strongly-typed and compiled to the requirements to be a "real" programming language, but maybe that's just snobbery.
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I would agree in most cases, however, some languages are not imperative so the requirement may not be applicable.
Need custom software developed? I do C# development and consulting all over the United States.
If you don't ask questions the answers won't stand in your way.
Doing a job is like selecting a mule, you can't choose just the front half xor the back half so when you ask me to do a job don't expect me to do it half-assed.
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Just so you know, I voted this a 5 because I think it's silly to get a 2 over your opinion that is no way distasteful, etc.
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I think some people now think they have to rate every message they see. 
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Neither is HTML or CSS and javascript should prefaced as a scripting language which I would argue is different than a programming language.
I didn't get any requirements for the signature
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I would define javascript as a programming language but would agree with you in regards to HTML in CSS. In fact, HTML is a mark-up language, and CSS is a Stylesheet Language.
In fact, javascript can be more powerful and expressive than even C# in a lot of instances.
Need custom software developed? I do C# development and consulting all over the United States.
If you don't ask questions the answers won't stand in your way.
Doing a job is like selecting a mule, you can't choose just the front half xor the back half so when you ask me to do a job don't expect me to do it half-assed.
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I'll third that.
But I'll also opine that scripting languages (including Perl and DCL) are a subset of programming languages.
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