Marshall Spight wrote:
> I just want to go on record as saying that I find the
> whole pedantic insistence on differentiating between
> a database and a dbms tiresome and counterproductive.
> It isn't "precise"; it's ostentatious. Humans are
> very, very good at disambiguating, and I've never
> seen anyone confuse a database and a dbms,
> even when the wrong term was used.
I tend to agree with you, even though I am careful to use the correct
word myself these days. I also find it almost offensive when people
pedantically add "[sic]" after each and every mis-use of such terms
when quoting others. It seems insulting and immature.
Received on Tue Nov 16 2004 - 06:01:55 CST
