When you have an army of lawyers, they just let you sue them.

Then why doesn't every other piece of software in the world ban benchmarks? Is Oracle really leading the charge into the future?

> Then why doesn't every other piece of software in the world ban benchmarks?

Lots of commercial software does. SQL Server does (or did in the past), Atlassian does, etc.

Congratulations on aggressively suing the poor souls who don't know better than to never use an Oracle product. Get lost

I did have my postgresql DB on their service randomly stop once and didn't restart until I logged in and poked it :(

Sometimes I want partial application and other functional paradigms... to reduce LOC by 90%

I’m currently in the process of picking up elixir. When you say partial application, are you referring to the use of the capture operator `&`?

Bad explanation from a noob (me), but basically yes. Functions just always fit together and I don't need ugly sprawling interfaces or pointless declarations of nearly identical functions.

In Elixir when I want to pass a function with 3 arguments into an interface that expects 4, I can do something inline with no extra boilerplate like func(&1, &2, &3, <a default 4th value to be used in each invocation>)

Not your parent commenter but likely they at least partially meant that, yes.

Though that alone can't reduce LoC by 90%. Elixir is just incredibly terse and no-bullshit language in general. All the shorter code idioms together make for a readable and to-the-point code.