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dimino on May 29, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stanford engineers' breakthrough heralds super-eff...

That's like what SQL does too, you just tell it what data you want, and it comes up with the best way to get you the data.

There's a word for programming languages like this, I forget what it is, though.

insaneirish on May 29, 2015 [–]

> There's a word for programming languages like this, I forget what it is, though.

Declarative. As opposed to telling it how to get what you want, which would be imperative.

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