Quote: in database query languages, queries produce new, implicit types; in functional programming every type is explicit

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There seems to be a different attitude towards … [of functional programming languages and database query languages] … Almost every query in a database query language … existing relation having three fields … introduces a "new" record type having only these … The difference is that the richness of types … programming is highlighted by their being explicit.   Google-1   Google-2

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