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SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases. For the last three decades, databases and Structured Query ...

Five or six languages die every year, experts say. Within two centuries, 40 percent of the world’s extant languages may be gone. These are sobering numbers for a linguist like Anthony Aristar, an ...

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