Am Di., 14. Juli 2020 um 02:38 Uhr schrieb John Cowan <[email protected]>:

> Just cherry-picking a few points...

Just cherry-cherry-picking. :)

> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 5:40 PM Linas Vepstas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Compare to, for example SQL -- it blows the doors off syntax-case in 
>> usability and power.
>
>
> Well, no; syntax-case allows arbitrary Scheme, so it is Turing-complete.  SQL 
> is not, unless the implementation of CTEs allows arbitrary nesting.  SQL is 
> also extremely rigid, deficient, and un-orthogonal compared to a true 
> relational algebra implementation like Tutorial D.

In fact, already the pattern language of syntax-rules is Turing-complete.

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