Re: Wishing Leandro Guimares Faria Corsetti Dutra away

"HungryLion" <hungrylion2002_at_yahoo.ca> wrote in message news:df89bd03.0405160032.3ee5011c_at_posting.google.com...
> jingleheimerschmitt_at_hotmail.com (John Jacob) wrote in message
news:<72f08f6c.0405151711.3a495397_at_posting.google.com>...
> >
> > This newsgroup is for the discussion of items related to database
> > theory, a field which was placed on a firm theoretical foundation
> > thirty years ago. Unfortunately, the majortiy of practitioners and
> > vendors have either forgotten that fact, or choose to ignore it.
> > Leandro is one of the few participants in these discussions that has
> > not forgotten that fact, and if you choose to ignore his posts, you
> > will inevitably end up in the same state the rest of the industry is
> > in: technological regression.
>
> Some might have even forgotten that you are from Alphora or whatever
> its called. Yes, the cult leaders (Pascal, Date, Alphora) are looking
> for new members...Just keep buying the books...the truly relational
> system will be production ready any day now. Damn...even Reverend
> Moon or Billy Graham must be impressed with you guys.

Yes, and not only is there a cult following, but all students of information technology must drink the koolaid before they graduate. Then they come to us where we have to deprogram them. Instead of using airports to hand out collateral material, they use our colleges and universities to pass out textbooks that often read in a way that could be summarized as "here are some flawed approaches to database theory and then here is relational theory, the truth, the whole truth." This seems to be a very effective technique for proselytizing.
--dawn Received on Sun May 16 2004 - 14:23:18 CEST