From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-03-22T19:35:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science

On 21.03.2007 17:01, 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.

Actually it's not because this fact has indeed practical consequences. 
For example, try to retrieve a tree structure from a table without 
defined depth limit in standard SQL.

Regards

	robert