On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 3:58 PM Guyren Howe <guyren(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> You’re confusing SQL with the relational model. Datalog and Quel and Tutorial D and other database languages and systems can and did provide those features also.
By analogy: Arabic and Roman numerals both describe the natural
numbers. Hence, they have the same mathematical properties. Spending
a little time doing algebra with Roman numerals should convince
anyone, however, that how you express a concept matters a lot.
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Ray Brinzer