Relational processing entails treating whole relationships as operands. Its primary purpose is loop-avoidance, an absolute requirement for end users to be productive at all, and a clear productivity booster for application programmers.

— E. F. Codd Relational Database: A Practical Foundation for Productivity (1982)

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