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It's an acceptable simplification for (presumably) a non-technical audience. Rather than write a paragraph or three about 'what is a SQL and why should I care'
by lwhalen 13y ago
It's an acceptable simplification for (presumably) a non-technical audience. Rather than write a paragraph or three about 'what is a SQL and why should I care', then another paragraph or three of 'what is a Hadoop, why should I care, and how it compares to SQL', they just say "it's newer". It's kind of like telling my grandmother "Yes, I work in computers". It saves a good 60+ minutes of glassy-eyed explaining.
- wging 13y agoThe strange thing is that if you just say "newer technologies" it's both a simpler sentence and less obviously wrong. (As someone's pointed out already, it's still wrong because Python's comparatively older.)