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Re: Issues with the logical consistency of The Third Manifesto

From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:01:30 GMT
Message-ID: <dBhmd.102104$R05.62118@attbi_s53> 





"Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net> wrote in message news:zdqdneWfr8Q8xwrcRVn-vg_at_comcast.com...

>




> I don't care whether you follow Codd or Date or Dawn or Neo,  it's all

> representation.




This sentence really struck me. It's almost poetry.


"Neo": new
"Dawn": the first instant of sunlight
"Date": a specific day





"In the beginning, there was nothing. And on the first day, there
was light. Then came ..."



What? A fish? The relational model?


Is the relational model somehow piscine?



http://images.google.com/images?q=cod




Marshall
Received on Tue Nov 16 2004 - 01:01:30 CST












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