On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 16:03, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > SQL is turing-complete, so is XSL-T > (though not XML, that's just an SGML format) > for that matter, so are Perl-5 regular expressions. > and turing completeness really is the only valid criteria for judging > whether or not something is a "programming language"
This is one thing why I quit university - there is a difference between theory and practice. Whether turing complete or not, I never ever can write my next CRM, ERP or whatever application in XML. -- Martin Wildam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
