Every scripting language evolves until it can access an RDBMS

Here’s my new theory about scripting languages: everybody loves SQL (or, more likely, the data SQL makes accessible), so every scripting language evolves until it can access an RDBMS, whether it’s JavaScript, or Movable Type’s template language or server side includes.

(See also the history of SQL.)

[tags]SQL, javascript, scripting languages[/tags]