Re: Initial Draft Finding on Principle of Least Power from Jon Hanna on 2005-12-20 (www-tag@w3.org from December 2005)

From: Jon Hanna <jon@hackcraft.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:29:37 +0000
To: www-tag@w3.org
Message-ID: <43A81551.7070801@hackcraft.net>

Elliotte Harold wrote:
> 
> The first paragraph in section 1 states that SQL is Turing complete. I 
> could be wrong about this, and it could depend on the dialect, but I 
> don't think SQL is Turing complete, at least not in its usual standard 
> incarnation. A quick Google search on "SQL Turing complete" turned up 
> these:

It does depend on the dialect, some are Turing complete but the ANSI 
version isn't (or at least wasn't at one point).

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