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Logic programming is about specifying what is wanted without worrying about the methods used to produce it [beyond the correctness of the methods]. SQL shines a bit of light on the subject at a less abstract level (relational algebra). Writing a query describes the result, and does not address the algorithms used to calculate it, nor does it even depend on the actual way in which the data is organized - if the interface is there, that's all that matters.


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