Re: O'Reilly interview with Date

>> I think it comes from practical experience of these models being complicated to use rather than any theoretical argument. I've never used hierarchical or networks database but I understand people who did found relational database much easier to use and develop. <<

I did use them and they actually matched the procedural languages better than RM. The big problem was that you had to do everything explicitly and no two of them were alike. We forget how much SQL hides from us. Received on Wed Aug 03 2005 - 23:08:09 CEST