Re: Attribution for modeling data with relations

"dawn" <dawnwolthuis_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:1141232675.124053.15680_at_j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> 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.

> Does anyone know to whom should we attribute the modeling of data with
> relations?

I don't know but I remember reading a logic book written around 1920 in which the relational view of the world is explained. Received on Thu Mar 02 2006 - 01:44:29 CST