Re: MV counterexample

"mAsterdam" <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> wrote in message news:409a8708$0$567$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl...
> Dawn M. Wolthuis wrote:
>
> > Combining these very conceptually simple concepts of: string (of data),
> > graph (for navigation), and function (mapping) with data is so intuitive
for
> > the human brain that I would guess that if you put these concepts
together
> > into some sort of web of information, it just might catch on in a
world-wide
> > fashion.
>
> Nah. Incomplete. No enforced referential
> constraints.

I don't know about that -- I see entire propositions, including child clauses, altogether on a single page. So, there are SOME such constraints. When the page is removed, the child clauses seem to be gone too.

> You would get stale links in no time, and your database
> would be corrupted. End of exercise.

It would surely be useless if there were any "page not found" responses -- human beings would not put up with that ;-)

It isn't rocket science to prepare a web site that has no problem links if you have control of all linking and linked pages. But once that is not the case -- once you have a link from a zip code in your data to a map that shows where that zip code is located and you don't control the map, then you might have a missing link. We have seen cases where users can put up with that for the advantages they get when the link is there.

> It would make a nice TLA, though.

and it seems to be a model "IN PRODUCTION" at practially every company -- quite impressive that WWW "data model" eh? --dawn Received on Thu May 06 2004 - 15:17:32 CDT