Re: Programming is the Engineering Discipline of the Science that is Mathematics

From: Cimode <cimode_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 8 Jun 2006 14:32:53 -0700
Message-ID: <1149802373.381570.14000_at_g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>


David Cressey wrote:
> "Cimode" <cimode_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1149758377.688333.114770_at_c74g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>
> > If Codd would not have thought of appying mathematical relations and
> > set theory to computing the RM would not have been invented. It's
> > true that all mathematics has not been applied and may not be applyable
> > to computing but mathematics has already inspired and helped the
> > formulation of computing models.
> >
>
> Actually, this isn't true. If you'll go back to Codd's 1970 paper, you'll
> see that he makes reference to the relational model of data having been used
> in prior work. That prior work did not involve databases, admittedly.
Yes but where do you think this prior work come from anywhere else than from math? Received on Thu Jun 08 2006 - 23:32:53 CEST

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