Re: In an RDBMS, what does "Data" mean?

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"Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote in message news:g14Ec.195436$Ly.120468_at_attbi_s01...
> "x" <x-false_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > Some keywords: monoid, kleene algebra, word/term rewriting systems,
lambda
> > calculus, algebra, coalgebra, bialgebra, boolean algebra,
semi-structured,
> > Goedel, Turing, Post, Church, Kleene, Markov, Chomsky, etc.

> I expect you were trying to be helpful, but by being so inclusive, you
> left me with way to big field to cover. It is as if you suggest I go
google
> for "math."

Yes, it is a huge task.

> Those items on the list I'm familiar with (lambda calculus, algebra,
boolean
> algebra, semi-structure, Goedel, Turing, Church) don't suggest anything
> about a list algebra to me.

What do you plan to do with this algebra of lists ? How your list is different from a string or a tree ? How your algebra would be different from lambda calculus ? You plan to use any lists or some particular kind of lists ? Haven't you heard of Noam Chomsky ?

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