Re: Date is Incomplete - database application software and database theory
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 19:34:47 GMT
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"Eric Kaun" <ekaun_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "mountain man" <hobbit_at_southern_seaweed.com.op> wrote in message
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> > My reading of Date allows me to assert his detailed
> > coverage of the theoretical ground of database
> > systems technology lacks any meaningful discussion
> > of the (one would implicity assume exists) application
> > system software which is to "inhabit" the system.
> >
> > This is radical incompleteness of theory.
> >
> > Are there any parties aware of any other authors
> > who allow for the theoretical treatment of the inter-
> > relationships between RDBMS software and the
> > generic application system software level?
>
> Between the RDBMS software and the application software? Well, he offers
> Tutorial D and its type system in Third Manifesto - that language is the
> interface.
Why have another language? Doesn't that suggest use of the first language is not implemented properly? ;-)
> But I have to admit I'm somewhat confused by the phrase "generic
application
> system software level", which perhaps needs a few more qualifying nouns
> and/or adjectives for clarity. :-)
I dont know. My position is a generalist one.
- We have database software.
- We have application software.
- When are they ever used separately?
- One would expect there to be in theory common ground.
- The theory is incomplete.
Pete Brown
Falls Creek
Oz
Received on Wed May 12 2004 - 21:34:47 CEST