In the thread about Rich Hickey's talk on simplicity, people bring up the
point that Rich suggests to *finally*, learn SQL. The idea is to use
declarations to describe your solution, decoupling implementation details.
However, its arguable that SQL itself is hard. For example, programmers can
I'm new to clojure but I find the approach [1]Arel takes to SQL very useful.
It uses relational algebra to make complex SQL statements composed by
smaller structures that represent simple SQL statements.
On my current project, we use it as a way to provide the staff will a
flexible query builder.
