Re: Some Laws

"John Doherty" <jdoherty_at_nowhere.null.not> wrote in message news:1621918.j0NiTlzZoU_at_dupree.null.not...
> >> In article <sAC3d.76182$MQ5.9545_at_attbi_s52>, "Marshall Spight"
> >> <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote:
>
> >>> Photoshop could really use an RDBMS.
>
> >> It could? For what?
>
> > For storing history information on what files you have edited in the
> > past, for one thing.
>
> Well, I suppose there's some sense in which any application you might
> use to edit any file could benefit from something like that.
> Photoshop is no more an example than any other application, but I
> thought it had been mentioned for some specific reason.

Yes and no. I picked Photoshop because I'm familiar with it and because it's something that people aren't likely to think of as being able to benefit from an RDBMS, even though it really could. Spight's law.

> But as far as that goes, it doesn't seem like such a good idea to
> build that functionality into the applications themselves. Better to
> make it part of a larger system independent of whatever applications
> might be used to edit a file.

Exactly.

Marshall Received on Wed Sep 22 2004 - 17:34:47 CEST