Or they just used the wrong word. I'd agree with them, but clarify that SQL is not just terse, but concise.
A join or a group by is going to be much clearer than writing the code the query plan is going to generate, creating temporary hash maps, doing nested loops, etc.
Yep, because unlike general purpose programming languages, you describe WHAT data you want from SQL, not HOW to get that data as in most application languages.
