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I just really hate seeing/typing RIGHT OUTER JOIN when it could be just ⟖. It feels like it takes me a microsecond to read the symbol, translating the glyph straight into its meaning in my head instead of subvocalizing it first and thinking what does this mean then. This takes way more time and struggle with the words. Also the whole query consisting of many such words becomes too big to read easily or split into logical parts visually and also looks ugly from the purely aesthetical point of view.

To me sea of the SQL language elements represented with words intermixed with table names and other words into one uniform ocean of words seems at least no better than the names intermixed with the distinct kind of symbols (each of which I recognize instantly).




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