Quoting D. Richard Hipp

D. Richard Hipp, creator of SQLite, is reflecting on a historical lesson. Years ago, companies hired COBOL programmers to hand-write code for querying large data sets. Then SQL came along and provided a simpler way—people could just specify queries instead of coding manually. Programmers didn't vanish, Hipp says. The job just changed. Simon Willison's blog features Hipp's reflection.

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