Re: Storing query language in relations

From: David Cressey <david_at_dcressey.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 15:54:15 GMT
Message-ID: <HQin9.158$0I3.12141_at_petpeeve.ziplink.net>

> Trivial but important idea indeed.

Oxymoron alert... "trivial" actually means "unimportant".

Engineers tend to calls certain matters "trivial" because they don't entail a sufficient intellectual challenge.
But that's a peculiar view of what constitutes triviality. Received on Fri Oct 04 2002 - 17:54:15 CEST

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