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"JOG" <jog_at_cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> Well is a database not merely a physical implementation of an abstract
> data model? Define that and one's going in the right direction to
> defining the purpose of that specific type of software.
>
> Leif B. Kristensen wrote:
> > A software developer is a person capable of arranging a collection of
> > ones and zeroes in such a way as to bend a thinking stone to obey his
> > will.
>
> simply brilliant.
>
If software did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it.
Received on Wed Feb 08 2006 - 01:14:26 CST
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