Re: database systems and organizational intelligence

From: Alfredo Novoa <alfredo_at_ncs.es>
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 10:44:08 GMT
Message-ID: <40bb0c72.2121660@news.wanadoo.es>

On Mon, 31 May 2004 10:36:57 +0300, "x" <x-false_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

>> Even if you have a massively parallel computer you still code with a
>> sequencial text editor.
>
>What is sequencial ? I, the code, the text, the file(s) or the editor ? :-)

All, but I was talking about the text based code.

>Sequencial by what order ?

From top to bottom and from left to right in the western world.

>I thought one purpose of the relational model is to make all data explicit.
>Including order.

But code is not data. Code is a sequence of instructions and data are facts.

Regards
Alfredo Received on Mon May 31 2004 - 05:44:08 CDT