Re: Attribution for modeling data with relations

dawn wrote:
> I had thought that Codd was the first to model data using relations or
> at least to write about it, but when I re-read Nelson's 1965 paper
> while scanning it in* I saw that he uses "relational terminology" and
> the term "relational terminology" (page 2-8), even if just giving a
> hint of it.

He's talking about the subscript notation. It has nothing to do with representing data with relations.

• Jan Hidders