Re: Teach SELECT DISTINCT first!

"Lemming" <thiswillbounce_at_bumblbee.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:ele0901mcm0rdvalneerr1ekt577via5hf_at_4ax.com...
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 20:23:26 -0500, "Dawn M. Wolthuis"
> <dwolt_at_tincat-group.com> wrote:
>
> >Maybe there were too many years wasted chasing that R fad ;-)
>
> They are all fads ... A, B, C, ... all the way to Z -- all fads. And
> that includes the P fad too. R's time will pass, just as P's time has
> passed.

And what we have remaining after the passing of various fads are things that work well and things that don't (what some of us care about) AND things that have robust theories associated with them and things that don't (what others of us care about). I'm particularly interested in the intersection of these two. Cheers! --dawn Received on Thu Apr 29 2004 - 01:32:27 CEST