Re: Lookup Tables, the right way?
From: Marshall Spight <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 15 Mar 2006 19:17:03 -0800
Message-ID: <1142479023.855939.133620_at_j52g2000cwj.googlegroups.com>
Date: 15 Mar 2006 19:17:03 -0800
Message-ID: <1142479023.855939.133620_at_j52g2000cwj.googlegroups.com>
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++
"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain
but which just today it occurred to me applies quite well to SQL:
Marshall Received on Thu Mar 16 2006 - 04:17:03 CET