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Comment by dgb23

Your computer is also not a Turing Machine. The regex that you use is not really a regular language. Your functions and logic are not referentially transparent, because well, they have to run on a computer.

But it's useful to learn the foundational mathematics of these things as there is a direct relationship between them.

SQL has semantics that can be understood by relational algebra of relational bags. It's of course not a 1:1 translation, but the mathematical underpinnings are explained there. It's useful to learn the simpler, more abstract thinking tool in order to understand the concrete programming tool.

parent dgb23 3 years ago

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