Re: O'Reilly interview with Date

On 2 Aug 2005 18:03:11 -0700, "dawn" <dawnwolthuis_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>I just read the interview at
>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/07/29/cjdate.html
>
>Although it doesn't cover new ground, it does provide an article of
>Date's comments accessible to everyone from which we could discuss
>various points. I can start with comments and questions about this
>quote from the interview, p2:
>
>"And in this connection I'd like to say explicitly that I reject, as
>proposed 'replacements' for the relational model, both (a) XML and the
>semistructured 'model,' which I see as reinventing the old failed
>hierarchic 'model,' and (b) objects and the object-oriented 'model,'
>which I see as reinventing the old failed network 'model.'"
>
>My response:
>1. He groups together an XML model and a semi-structured model. There
>is no way I would lump these two together. The mapping from the

     He thinks that neither is workable. That is not much of a connection.

     I am not a woman. I am not a life insurance salesperson. These are not very lumpable either.

[snip]

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko Received on Wed Aug 03 2005 - 19:13:41 CEST