world gone mad

If, like me, your eyes were opened to the power of SQL by Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties, or even if they weren't, Beat Vontobel is a great speaker to hear. I use SQL every day, and I think I could use a talk like this every 6 months to remind me of the power of SQL as a declarative programming language.

In 45 minutes Beat managed to give the audience a primer in declarative programming and it's relationship to SQL (with examples in Prolog) and demonstrate a "20 questions" style "Guess Your Favorite Programming Language" application written entirely as a set of views and run from the MySQL command prompt.

I need to use more views.