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by trenchgun 616 days ago
>It doesn’t predate sql and certainly not it’s use in mathematics.

What do you mean by "it's use in mathematics"? To my knowledge <> was invented by Algol language creators to use it for inequality. There was no previous use in mathematics. And to my opinion, that was an unfortunate error.
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mixmastamyk 616 days ago
Interesting, must have learned it so long ago… Pascal? that I conflated it with math class. Still ~1958 is rather venerable.

The plot thickens, apparently ++ is used for erlang. So I still find it a poor choice.

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sodapopcan 615 days ago
++ is for concatenating lists, it's not the only functional language that uses this.

Really though who cares? `=` is already misused in most programming languages.

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mixmastamyk 614 days ago
When looking at new languages, getting the basics right is the first thing I look at. Clumsy string concatenation is a blocker in my business, which is like 75% of the code.
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sodapopcan 607 days ago
Actually in Elixir when doing string building you want to use "improper" lists which lets you very efficiently build up a string without doing any copying.
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sodapopcan 616 days ago
Oh ha, duh me, I did not consider it wasn't invented by Postgres.
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