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layer8 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: CQL: Categorical Databases

While agree with the main statement, I don’t understand the point about RNG. You don’t need Turing-completeness nor imperativeness for RNG.

thesz 3 months ago [–]

Most probably you do not want two of your SELECT statements to have the same seed during the execution.

This necessitates some state, most probably, persisted one. Hence, imperativeness.

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