I was trying to think of an idea to submit to !!con West: http://bangbangcon.com/west/ http://bangbangcon.com/west/ My original idea was to write a compiler fr

I was trying to think of an idea to submit to !!con West: http://bangbangcon.com/west/ http://bangbangcon.com/west/ My original idea was to write a compiler from a programming language to SQL. I was trying to think of what would be cool examples of programs that you can write. One of the first ideas that came to mind was to write some programs that would produce fractals. After I thought about it some more, I realized it would be easier to write SQL queries that generate fractals than it would be to write the compiler. I wound up giving a talk on that instead. I actually am giving a talk next month on making a programming language interpreter with SQL. Sometime after I give that talk, I'll turn that one into a blog post too.