Re: Definitions of Software and Database
From: David Cressey <dcressey_at_verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 07:14:26 GMT
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Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 07:14:26 GMT
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"JOG" <jog_at_cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:1139113319.268316.155230_at_g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> 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 - 08:14:26 CET