Interesting that that's the direction you went with this.
I've always wished that mysql supported a more unix-like interface, where a few characters of composable interfaces would do, instead of word after word of semi-natural-language syntax.
I've always wished that mysql supported a more unix-like interface, where a few characters of composable interfaces would do, instead of word after word of semi-natural-language syntax.
For me the benefit is that for lots of problems, whether databases or the filesystem, thinking in terms of sets feels really natural. I can't imagine why you'd want to pipe grep results to grep -v rather than say "and not"
I guess we all prefer the language whose syntax we know the best.