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Doom ported to SQL: welcome to hell

Rob Beschizza
Sep 16, 2025
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DoomQL

Getting seminal first-person shooter Doom running on minimal or bizarre hardware is a sport among hackers, but the fact that Doom runs in fast, portable C makes it possible. What if Doom were instead ported to the least convenient and most inappropriate language? How about Structured Query Language, designed exclusively for use manipulating relati…

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