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		Plough_Jogger on June 17, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building Street Fighter II in Ruby [video] Difficult to do with a language that isn't Turing complete.

esaym on June 17, 2015 | [–]

You can at least make a raid 4 simulator in SQL: (from http://www.baarf.com/ ) http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/raid.zip

tlarkworthy on June 17, 2015 | [–]

It is though. You just write the results of a query back in the database in a loop (along with the current commands from the player).

hobs on June 17, 2015 | [–]

Also SQL variants are turing complete http://www.valuedlessons.com/2009/08/sql-is-now-turing-compl...

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