Authoritative References

"Alfredo Novoa" <alfredo_at_ncs.es> wrote in message news:e4330f45.0409251500.4f1b8afa_at_posting.google.com...

> My obvious sugestion is that we should resort to the authoritative
> references:
>
> http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/abstractDataType.html
>

I have to wonder just how "authoritative" the NIST dictionary is. This, even though the "nation" referred to is probably my own.

Here's an example: I went to that dictionary and looked up several words. Here's their definition of "relational structure"

http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/relational.html

I have to wonder how much acceptance this definition would get in this forum.

They don't even have a definition of "data model". Received on Sun Sep 26 2004 - 06:37:27 CDT