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		mamcx 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Left to Right Programming > It's written that way because it stems from relational algebra, A common misconception (that SQL is a realization of RA instead of barely based on it). In RA, is in fact `Relation > Operator`

sgarland 5 months ago [–]

Unless I am grossly misunderstanding your notation, I have always seen RA written with the operator first. Some examples:

https://cs186berkeley.net/notes/note6/

https://web.wlu.ca/science/physcomp/ikotsireas/CP465/W1-Intr...

https://home.adelphi.edu/~siegfried/cs443/443l9.pdf

mamcx 5 months ago | [–]

You are correct in that is the notation used, but that is not how it goes internally!

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