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Re:Stanford engineers' breakthrough heralds super-efficient ... by dimino on Friday May 29, 2015 @12:34AM (#9622679)
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.

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Re:Stanford engineers' breakthrough heralds super-efficient ... by insaneirish on Friday May 29, 2015 @12:44AM (#9622715)
> 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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