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		AdieuToLogic 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL > Most RDBMSs support recursive CTEs, it feels like writing Prolog with a slightly sadistic syntax. Which makes sense as both are declarative logic-based languages. IMHO, SQL and Prolog fundamentally have much in common.

marxisttemp 11 months ago [–]

I did a semester at the university of Edinburgh and took database systems and logic programming at the same time, and I definitely felt the synergy between them.

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