From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-03-22T04:24:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 01:01:14AM +0900, John Joyce wrote:
> Ok, if you say so. Let's call it a describing language, but  
> operations like AUTO INCREMENT seem an awful lot like programming. I  
> guess we have to say Ruby is not a programming language either. It is  
> a scripting language.
> hmm...
> many sources do describe (no pun intended) SQL as a declarative  
> programming language. It isn't 'Turing complete' because it can't  
> create an infinite loop. Big deal.
> That's academic nitpicking.

If you want a "real programming language" version of SQL, just use
PL/SQL with Oracle.  Ew.

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