> In other words, you can't have it both ways. Either we compare theories,
> in which case your side has all the weapons, or we compare reality,
In fairness - people posting from CDT are doing exactly that, and an
interesting academic exercise it is as well. I'm just a little surprised
that they can be bothered to argue the point with us in CDP. It seems self
evident that Pick and it's derivatives are not as theoretically pure nor as
mathematically compliant as a theoretical database. But so what? The world
is full of compromise - as early adopters of Betamax would tell you. The
point is we believe that we are able to get the job done, and millions of
successful installations tend to add substance to that belief. I enjoy a
theoretical debate as much as the next person but I'm not about to allow
that to prevent me using tools that work. FWIW (which given the length and
extent of this debate is very little - sorry).
Received on Thu Oct 23 2003 - 11:08:33 CDT
