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Some statements like self-joins become relatively compact in SQL though... BTW, do you miss Java's more advanced structures (say MultiSet) when programming in

• nostrademons 13y ago
  Pretty rarely, at least in Python. I don't miss MultiSet, because Python has that (collections.Counter). Ditto LinkedHashMap (collections.OrderedDict). Those are the two "extended" collections that I most often use. I do miss the absence of balanced binary trees occasionally, since sometimes it's useful to have an associative container with a defined iteration order, but sorted(dict) is usually good enough where performance is critical. And Python's heapq module is a bit harder to use than Java's PriorityQueues, but all the functionality is there. I think I'd miss these a bit more in Go because the built-in datatypes are privileges in some of the language statements, but I haven't written enough Go code to really feel their absence.