Re: Lookup Tables, the right way?

From: Frank Hamersley <terabitemightbe_at_bigpond.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 03:30:41 GMT
Message-ID: <BZ4Sf.7745$dy4.7525@news-server.bigpond.net.au>

Marshall Spight wrote:
> Frank Hamersley wrote:
>

>>Using 3VL causes these distinct meanings to become jumbled and
>>indistinguishable leading to much gnashing of teeth by some.  Because
>>the complexity of 3VL is bad enough, moving to 4VL or nVL has never got
>>close to pulling on a guernsey!

>
> I agree that 3VL causes problems.
>
> There is a great Stroustroup quote, usually mentioned in reference to
> C++
> but which just today it occurred to me applies quite well to SQL:
>
> "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain
> about and the ones nobody uses."

And my corollary is ...

   "You don't need to be a language user to be a complainer."

Cheers, Frank. Received on Wed Mar 15 2006 - 21:30:41 CST