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$pu3.166227_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
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> So far as I'm aware, Edgar Dijkstra did not do significant work in the
> area of relational database theory. I understand that you like his
> approaches to things, and I share much of your appreciation for
> Dijkstra's work... but I'm looking for something a little more specific
> here.
>
> I will look into the books you mentioned beforehand, and see what other
> opinions I can find to distinguish between them. Thanks.
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 12:54:04 GMT
Message-ID: <MPsrg.7437$pu3.166227_at_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 - 14:54:04 CEST