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senderista 79 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Rethinking Database Programming

COBOL is indeed the spiritual predecessor of SQL. We have learned a lot since then about PL design, to put it mildly.

pjmlp 79 days ago [–]

Yes, we now programm in straight English, and hope the machine gets it right.

huahaiy 77 days ago | [–]

So this really is a NL to query translation problem. That exactly is why the target language matters. Simpler target languages makes AI’s work easier, as it saves tokens and context, so it is less likely for AI to make mistakes.

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