• John@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    Why? It originated as literally SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language). It only changed because of a trademark conflict.

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      18 hours ago

      My native language is not English and saying “sequel” in this language is extremely forced and just not the norm. This bleeds over into English for me.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      Its ok.

      Let the script kiddies squeal and squirrel about.

      The elder ones … they were there when the code was written.