Re: Storing data and code in a Db with LISP-like interface
From: Marshall Spight <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 1 May 2006 22:29:35 -0700
Message-ID: <1146547775.637270.112540_at_v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>
> For certain advancements changes need to occur at the RM level,
> relational algebra and if necessary even at the set theory level (I
> doubt that it is static).
Date: 1 May 2006 22:29:35 -0700
Message-ID: <1146547775.637270.112540_at_v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>
Alvin Ryder wrote:
>
> For certain advancements changes need to occur at the RM level,
> relational algebra and if necessary even at the set theory level (I
> doubt that it is static).
Okay, I'm pretty sure that's false. Can you back it up at all? So far you provided one example which Bob knocked down trivially. Is there more?
> Codd and others have not been idle in this pursuit, though of course
> it'll be decades before it all becomes common knowledge.
I am eagerly awaiting to see what Codd will do in the next decade.
Marshall
PS. See if you can spot the ironic sentence.