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Re:Why I call myself a Javascript Programmer by gjm11 on Monday October 25, 2010 @02:58PM (#1831081)
> Except SQL.

Actually, SQL2008 is Turing-complete! See (if HN doesn't mangle the link): http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/27/High%20Performance%2...

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Re:Why I call myself a Javascript Programmer by zeteo on Monday October 25, 2010 @03:09PM (#1831132)
Ouch. That kind of sucks, actually. IIRC, Turing incompleteness had some nice side effects for SQL - such as guaranteeing program halt, and allowing perfect automatic optimization.
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Re:Why I call myself a Javascript Programmer by kenjackson on Monday October 25, 2010 @05:38PM (#1831722)
Being Turing Incomplete doesn't mean that programs are guaranteed to not halt. It just means that the Halting Problem may not be undecidable for that class of programs/machines. I'd be surprised if that was useful in the real world.
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Re:Why I call myself a Javascript Programmer by dagheti on Monday October 25, 2010 @03:57PM (#1831352)
At least most of the time people stick to the Turing incomplete subset of the language.
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