Re: Decline of Science: Computer Science and Databases

From: Finarfin <finarfin_at_sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:32:19 -0400
Message-ID: <Upeu9.51620$U17.1427524@news20.bellglobal.com>

Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote:

> I've read with interest your three last columns, and thought you
> might want to know an exemplary field to analyse the decline of
> knowledge.
>
> I work with databases. I'm not particularly good, in part because I
> haven't a formal CS education, but I try to educate myself.

You are "not particularly good, lack a formal CS education" and yet have the gall to rant at particulary intelligent people, such as Mr Hidders? Are the rants of Fabian your sole source of education on databases?

Finally, a question: One of Codd's requirements for a Proper relational database is rejected by Date (and hence Dataphor). Can you name it? Does this mean that Dataphor is a TDDMS rather than an RDMS?

JE Received on Fri Oct 25 2002 - 11:32:19 CDT