Re: Domain
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 01:23:06 -0500
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"Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote in message
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> "Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt_at_tincat-group.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > I agree except that I would state it more like "DBMS's should use modern
> > programming languages where classes define types aka domains"
>
> Yeah, it seems like the type system of SQL products got fixed in place
> a long time ago, and hasn't had any way to assimilate new ideas.
Kind of like how programming languages got fixed in place a long time ago
and haven't bothered to assimilate new ideas.
Modern programming languages are primitive compared to the relational model.
Dawn is an idiot. I suggest you ignore her--for your own benefit.
Received on Tue Dec 30 2003 - 07:23:06 CET