Re: Nested structures

From: JOG <jog_at_cs.nott.ac.uk>
Date: 15 Sep 2006 18:25:33 -0700
Message-ID: <1158369933.450764.309520@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

dawn wrote:
> Some, but not all, of you will find this new IDC paper entitled
> "Because Not All Data is Flat: IBM's U2 Extended Relational DBMSs" to
> be of interest.
> [snip]

How about this then - I propose that all data is, in fact, very much flat.

All information we communicate to each other may be stated as a proposition in first order logic. Everything.

Hence, any collection of information may be organized into sets of propositions, as determined by commonalities in the structure of those propositions. The information world could be no flatter.

J. Received on Fri Sep 15 2006 - 20:25:33 CDT