Re: Xquery might have some things right

From: Eric Kaun <ekaun_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 20:31:13 GMT
Message-ID: <lem8c.39788$fS1.8471_at_newssvr16.news.prodigy.com>


"Mikito Harakiri" <mikharakiri_at_iahu.com> wrote in message news:wqk8c.15$ry2.156_at_news.oracle.com...
> "Eric Kaun" <ekaun_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:3Bh8c.28405> Graph
> > theory is very complicated, and while it's certainly no more or less
> > "correct" than set theory, I'd wager that the latter is more useful:
> > tractable, automatable, and amenable to reason.
>
> This reference to graph theory by people who don't understand any theory
is
> a bluff. They what to substantiate their primitive pointer chasing method,
> and naively think that just throwing "graph theory" to the opponent face
is
> strong enough argument.

Could be, I don't know. What I do know is that my friends with stronger mathematical knowledge than me all cringe at generalized graph theory, while sets, relations, even rings and other topological concepts don't give them the same heebie-jeebies (that's a technical term, you know). Less dancing around NP-completeness and such... Received on Wed Mar 24 2004 - 21:31:13 CET

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