Since no one has answered your challenge in 2 years, I'll ask:
Why is it very important that SQL not be a Turing complete language?
The only answer^W guess I can come up with is the rhetorical - imagine someone trying to code an OS or any complete program in a database. But I don't really know. Thanks.

Perl programming and scheduling in the corporate world, as explained by dragonchild:
"Uhh ... that'll take me three weeks, broken down as follows: 1 day for coding, the rest for meetings to explain why I only need 1 day for coding."

In reply to Re: Re (tilly) 4: How NOT to do it by Louis_Wu
in thread How NOT to do it by jlawrenc

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