alt Hacker NewsOne threshold is "can you write a program that might not complete?" You can't in SQL, which makes it less of a programming language than, say, FORTRAN.
If you look at the HTML 5 spec it is clear that it's intended to be a substrate for applications. The HTML 5 spec could be factored into a specification of the DOM, specification of an x-language API for the DOM and a specification for a serialization format as well as bindings of that x-language API to specific languages like Javascript.
> If you look at the HTML 5 spec it is clear that it's intended to be a substrate for applications
That's the saddest thing I've read today.
(arguably not a terribly sad day)