Talk:SQR

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With the growing weight of Wikipedia as an 'authoritative' reference I believe it is important to avoid promoting poorly designed languages like 'SQR'. The article should provide a historical but deprecated view of the 'SQR' language. Anyone who has used Perl, or Java, or even C or C++ knows this language promotes bad practices (global parameters, lack of OO support, unwieldy syntax, poor documentation, lack of orthagonality etc...). People unfamiliar with programming languages should not get the impression that 'SQR' is a good language to learn software development from.

I don't see anything in the article that suggests SQR is an appropriate starting point for learning software development. It's a specialised "tiny language" or domain-specific language for producing reports. As such, it's inappropriate to apply the same standards of good or poor design to SQR as to a mainstream general-purpose programming language like Perl or Java. Furthermore, making value judgements like "poorly designed" is un-encyclopaedic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DaveVoorhis (talk • contribs) 14:10, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]