Re: An Analogy ?

On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 19:34:42 +0100, Alfredo Novoa <anovoa_at_ncs.es> wrote:

>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.

Wow. Spot on.

Lemming

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