SQL è ufficialmente pronunciato come / ˌɛskjuːɛl / like "S-Q-L", come affermato in
Beaulieu, Alan (April 2009). Mary E. Treseler. ed. Learning SQL (2nd ed.). Sebastapol, CA, USA: O'Reilly. ISBN 978-0-596-52083-0.
Ma spesso è pronunciato / siːkwəl / like "sequel", qual è la storia dietro questa seconda pronuncia?
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SQL was adopted as a standard by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in 1986 as SQL-86[19] and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 1987. The original SQL standard declared that the official pronunciation for SQL is "es queue el".2 Many English-speaking database professionals still use the nonstandard[20] pronunciation /ˈsiːkwəl/ (like the word "sequel").'
Diversi altri collegamenti confermano anche che un consenso sulla questione della pronuncia non è ancora vicino.
Btw, perché è importante?
Modifica: un altro esempio di evoluzione del linguaggio naturale y'all
SEQUEL = linguaggio QUEry inglese strutturato.
Per una buona prospettiva storica leggi
Don Chamberlin: ...A bunch of things were happening at about this time that I think we ought to mention just in passing. One was that we had to change the name of our language from SEQUEL to SQL. And the reason that we had to do that was because of a legal challenge that came from a lawyer. Mike, you probably can help me out with this. I believe it was from the Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Company in Great Britain, that said SEQUEL was their registered trademark. We never found out what kind of an aircraft a SEQUEL was, but they said we couldn't use their name anymore, so we had to figure out what to do about that. I think I was the one who condensed all the vowels out of SEQUEL to turn it into SQL, based on the pattern of APL and languages that had three-lettered names that end in L. So that was how that happened. ...