POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : All good fun : Re: All good fun Server Time
6 Sep 2024 19:18:46 EDT (-0400)
  Re: All good fun  
From: Darren New
Date: 16 Dec 2008 19:13:12
Message: <49484418$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
>   You can do *anything* with C. You can exactly replicate the machine code
> run by SQL or prolog in C. It may be more laborious to do in C than in SQL
> or prolog, but it will certainly not run slower.

That's just the Turing completeness argument. :-) It's not always true, tho, 
depending on your underlying CPU architecture. I've used systems where C 
can't be compiled.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   The NFL should go international. I'd pay to
   see the Detroit Lions vs the Roman Catholics.


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