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Re: Date's First Great Blunder

From: Laconic2 <laconic2_at_comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 08:22:16 -0400
Message-ID: <HsGdnci46cneMBbdRVn-tA@comcast.com> 





You are correct, NEO.



"Color is NULL"  is the absence of an assertion about color.  Why is it
NULL?


Maybe the data entry person left a field blank.



Maybe the current object is an idea,  and ideas don't have colors.



As far as "divergence from reality"  goes,  a database doesn't represent
reality.  It represents what we think we know about reality.  The difference
is subtle but important.
Received on Sun Apr 25 2004 - 07:22:16 CDT












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