Re: An Analogy ?

From: Alfredo Novoa <anovoa_at_ncs.es>
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 19:34:42 +0100
Message-ID: <41fvo09qvlvcd5if8e1q2jadbl39amhldj@4ax.com>

On 8 Nov 2004 03:08:22 -0800, tonyisyourpal_at_netscape.net (Tony Douglas) wrote:

>And, I would go on to suggest, both experiments have outlived their
>genuine usefulness and served to impede progress in their respective
>areas (that is, we're still stuck with FORTRAN 9x and SQL:2003).

Date wrote about this. SQL was a partially failed dirty lab experiment that was comercialized against Codd's opinion.

The difference is that Fortran didn't stop all the progress like SQL did.

We have plenty of programming languages but only one crappy database language.

Regards Received on Mon Nov 08 2004 - 12:34:42 CST