Re: Representing data on disk in an MV database - was Re: foundations of relational theory? - some references for the truly starving

From: Jonathan Leffler <jleffler_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 14:18:49 GMT
Message-ID: <dxamb.506$RQ1.288@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net>

Bob Badour wrote:

> "Jonathan Leffler" <jleffler_at_earthlink.net> wrote:

>>Mikito Harakiri wrote:
>>>"Mike Preece" <michael_at_preece.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Apology not necessary. Thanks anyway - it's like a breath of fresh
>>>>air.
>>>>Char(255) = End of item mark
>>>>Char(254) = Attribute mark
>>>>Char(253) = Value mark
>>>>Char(252) = SubValue mark
>>>
>>>Fresh air? Where did you dig that corpse from the 60s? Even XML (which
>>>smells a lot too) is more inventive with their field delimeters.
>>
>>Dear Mikito,
>>
>>I think you owe Mike an apology.
>>
>>First of all, you are taking the quote about the apology out of
>>context. A more accurate context would be:

> 
> 
> Jonathan,
> 
> I think you owe Mikito an apology. His snide remark did not address the part
> about the apology. It addressed the "breath of fresh air" statement and the
> putrid method of using fixed delimiters.

Dear Mikito,

It appears that there is more than one way for people who read English as their native tongue to understand Mike Preece's comment. I confess that I don't understand how that second construction works - I'll have to ask Bob to explain.

However, since there is such an alternative, I apologize for assuming that my reading of Mike Preece's commentary is the only plausible one.

> [senseless and misdirected rant snipped]

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