Re: A good book

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 12:54:04 GMT
Message-ID: <MPsrg.7437$pu3.166227@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>

Chris Smith wrote:

> Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>

>>That's a difficult one. I don't know whether I would say Fabian Pascal's 
>>_Practical Issues..._ or Date/Darwen's _TTM_ or maybe one of Date's 
>>earlier _Writings..._ books.
>>
>>Perhaps it would be better to just direct him to the EWD archive at utexas.

>
> So far as I'm aware, Edgar Dijkstra did not do significant work in the
> area of relational database theory. I understand that you like his
> approaches to things, and I share much of your appreciation for
> Dijkstra's work... but I'm looking for something a little more specific
> here.
>
> I will look into the books you mentioned beforehand, and see what other
> opinions I can find to distinguish between them. Thanks.

Dijkstra wrote a lot about the predicate calculus, about elegance etc. Received on Fri Jul 07 2006 - 07:54:04 CDT