Every time someone posts a link to some new or popular database claiming some superior performance, I think of this "fragment". One individual took this idea a

Every time someone posts a link to some new or popular database claiming some superior performance, I think of this "fragment". One individual took this idea and made a database system that beats them all. You never see it included in the benchmark comparisons for these other databases posted about on HN. I wonder why? Oft forgotten: All source code looks "cryptic" to someone who has no previous exposure to programming. As a newcomer to programming I would rather be saddled with trying to understand this "fragment" than trying to understand the beginnings of the source code for some other language like Python. Less lines of code to figure out and, if I were successful in understanding it, the payoff is much greater... in more ways than one. Isn't there an often repeated statistic about the avg number of LOC a C programmer writes in a day? Wouldn't it be nice if just one or a few lines was actually a complete program?