Re: Database vs. DBMS
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:08:04 +0100
Message-ID: <cncu24$s1b$1_at_news.net.uni-c.dk>
"Alfredo Novoa" <alfredo_at_ncs.es> skrev i en meddelelse
news:4199ef03.8112640_at_news.wanadoo.es...
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:32:04 GMT, "Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com>
> 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 is absolutely fundamental IMO.
>
> If we open the door to complete sloppiness we could finish being like
> Scott Ambler.
Meaning what? Brilliant. Rich. Stupid. Old. Green? Aren't you just echoing
an opinion without any substantation.
You may well be right that it is absolutely fundamental, but please then
state the objective fundament rather than attacking a person who is not even
invited to the talk here.
By the way: IMO an open mind toward the view of others can be (at least) just as useful as strictly adherence to formal correctness.
> >It isn't "precise"; it's ostentatious. Humans are
> >very, very good at disambiguating,
>
> Then developers are the exception.
Based on what evidence?
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