Re: SQL
Just two small nitpicks:
"Christian Brunschen" <cb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <1138069132.579407.231900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> topmind <topmind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>The history is generally irrelavent.
>
> I disagree: History is never entirely irrelevant, even if only to show
> where something came from.
>
topmind claimed history is *generally* irrelevent, not *entirely*
irrelevant. "If only to show where something came from" does not contradict
with "generally irrelevant".
>
> Turing-complete languages will be general-purpose. But there may well be
> genera-purpose languages which aren't turing-complete.
The "infinitely long ribbon of 1s and 0s that Turing Machines read" is a
turing-complete programming language, but I don't think it's a
"general-purpose" language. AFAIK, their purpose has thus far been limited
to proving theorems (about the Turing Completeness, or lack thereof, of
other abstractions, for example).
So just because a language is TC does not nescessarily imply that it is
general purpose, in the sense that this thread seems to be using "general
purpose".
- Oliver
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