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"More efficiently"? Maybe. It opens up a new way to think about solutions to problems. Sometimes those solutions are more efficient, and sometimes they are just different.

It's a useful thing to learn though. And dare I say it, fun. Even if there was zero benefit to it, it'd still be fun. As it turns out, there really are benefits.

For me, the biggest benefit is when I'm working with data interactively. The syntax allows me to do a lot of complex operations on sets of data with only a few characters, which makes you feel like you have a superpower (especially when comparing to someone using Excel to try to do the same thing).