Re: Flat Query

From: David Cressey <david.cressey_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:51:09 GMT
Message-ID: <1Zd4f.14283$vw6.6998@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net>

"JOG" <jog_at_cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote in message news:1129404264.094853.307600_at_g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

> and most of the arguments i have read seem to degenerate because of
> mixed definitions of what a pointer _is_. I'd be very interested if
> someone has a precise definition of the term as used in the database
> field (including the distinction of a logical pointer).

> I have worked extensively with Nelson (and Engelbart) and part of the
> misconceptions about "pointers" and the web, lie in the bastardization
> of Nelson's term "hyperlink".
>
> A bi-directional link is of course nonsensensical. A link is, by
> definition, always bidirectional (as the links of a chain are).

In the development of MDL at project MAC we briefly toyed with the idea of requiring
(bi-directional) links in place of pointers, but discarded the idea. Of course, our ambitions were quite different. Received on Sat Oct 15 2005 - 15:51:09 CDT