Re: XQuery (and XML) vs LISP

On 21 Feb 2006 13:18:48 -0800, "Marshall Spight" <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>> On 21 Feb 2006 09:27:18 -0800, "Marshall Spight"
>> >
>> >This has reached the point of being completely off-topic for
>> >this newsgroup. I don't know of a good newsgroup for
>> >this sort of discussion, but if you wish to continue this
>> >line of conversation, I would ask you to take it somewhere
>> >else where it will be on-topic.
>>
>> How theory is taught is relevant. Given the number of arguments
>> over terminology, that should be obvious.
>
>No aspect of this conversation has anything specifically to do
>with database theory. Hence it is offtopic here, obviousness
>notwithstanding.

     So a statement that is broadly applicable (i.e. to more than just database theory) is automatically off-topic?

     Ha!

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko Received on Tue Feb 21 2006 - 22:29:23 CET