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Comment by larodi

>I’m amazed how much collapses into a single domain: SQL.

perhaps is more correct to say "all data, including code, is table-representable, even though being a graph" or "everything falls back to tables" or even "relational algebra is all u need", but I strongly disagree SQL being a domain on its all, and that it (all) collapses into such domain.

One can collapse segment tables likewise into DATALOG, which is also a PROLOG-derivate. So then the thing demonstrated here is - "all collapses into grammars perhaps". which is not new, but there are plenty of engineering details, and whatnots to consider, to make such model viable for large-scale deployment. And trouble is it is not so easy to infer stuff about grammars before you expound/infer on them.

don't get me wrong - I love SQL, and respect SQLite and DuckDB for what they are. what we see here is one very curious approach and great demonstration.

parent larodi 2 months ago

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