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I feel like you've come to the right conclusion, but partly for the wrong reasons. Terseness in and of itself is not useful per se. Code golfing languages are t
by Etheryte 3y ago
I feel like you've come to the right conclusion, but partly for the wrong reasons. Terseness in and of itself is not useful per se. Code golfing languages are the tersest there is, but we don't write code that way.
- ndriscoll 3y agoOr they just used the wrong word. I'd agree with them, but clarify that SQL is not just terse, but concise. A join or a group by is going to be much clearer than writing the code the query plan is going to generate, creating temporary hash maps, doing nested loops, etc.