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		arethuza on Aug 5, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lost skills: What today's coders don't know and wh... You do realise that once upon a time pushing Java was pretty much a "religous" activity and indeed the same applies to SQL. All technologies have got to start somewhere.... Edit: I know, I was an evangelical Java fanatic from about '95 to '00 or so.

true_religion on Aug 5, 2011 [–]

While I wasn't working at that time. I agree.

Once relational databases were considered to be "academic" because of their mathematical underpinnings. What was considered practical was flat files, or graph databases.

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