4. Steve Yegge - Google
Software engineering has its own political
axis, ranging from conservative to liberal
Scala (...): Hardcore conservative.
NoSQL - liberal
17. SQL - examples
select from suppliers
select from suppliers where name = 'Henry'
select trucks[0] from suppliers
18. SQL - examples
select from suppliers where
details.status = 'Important'
select from suppliers where
trucks[capacity = 5].size() > 3
select from suppliers where trucks
contains (capacity = 2)
24. .Net
LINQ makes a query a first-class
language construct in C# and Visual
Basic.
var results = from c in Suppliers
where c.size < 10
select new {c.name, c.address};
25. JVM?
... makes a query a first-class language
construct in Java
... makes a query a first-class language
construct in Scala
