Just cherry-picking a few points...

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 5:40 PM Linas Vepstas <xxxxxx@gmail.com> 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.

See also Linda, in which you broadcast arbitrary tuples (could be trees, too) into Lindaspace and then anyone can query the space with pattern matching, returning the first matching tuple with or without atomically removing it.



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