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Re:SQL databases come up with algorithms you’d never have dr... by afandian on Saturday April 06, 2019 @12:31PM (#19591548)
OK agreed there's a construct called loop that returns a single value. My original point was that list comprehensions are closer to sql projections than loops.
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Re:SQL databases come up with algorithms you’d never have dr... by taeric on Saturday April 06, 2019 @01:06PM (#19591730)
Apologies, I meant my point more as amusement than winning an argument.

I am just now reading Practical Common Lisp, and amusingly one of the first things they do is build a simple query language. Didn't even use loop. So, to your point, the imperative commands of looping can be far removed from what people today call comprehensions. That said, I don't think it is inherent. Just a quirk of history.

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Re:SQL databases come up with algorithms you’d never have dr... by afandian on Saturday April 06, 2019 @05:46PM (#19593207)
No point scoring inferred. In fact, it's a great illustration of different language and technology communities taking words and ideas and implementing them differently, crucially, with different degrees of specificity.
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