[dimino]

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]

> 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.