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   Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 00:58:58 JST Eaton

   The most successful no-code platform in history is SQL

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     Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 02:32:01 JST Eaton

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     • chx

     @chx hahah, yeah, you're definitely correct. “SQL was a no-code tool" was a bit of a shitpost, but as you note the slow creep into turing completeness really took it farther than it was originally intended

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     chx (chx@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 02:32:02 JST chx

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     @eaton let me mansplain here. While the core of SQL was deliberately designed to be not Turing complete later standards (SQL:2003 and SQL:1999) allows some vile shenanigans via recursive CTEs. while https://github.com/nuno-faria/tetris-sql