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AlotOfReadingyesterday at 2:39 PM2 repliesview on HN

You can get Turing completeness by wrapping your datalog query in a while loop, so that's not particularly restrictive.


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Dylan16807today at 1:56 AM

You can get Turing completeness by wrapping basically any math or logic system in a while loop, even arithmetic. So that doesn't tell us much about the restrictiveness of the overall system since I'd call "you can only use arithmetic" pretty damn restrictive.

ModernMechyesterday at 3:06 PM

In the case of Datalog, it not being Turing-complete is usually seen as a feature rather than restrictive.