Re: Concurrency in an RDB

From: Marshall <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 31 Dec 2006 11:11:55 -0800
Message-ID: <1167592315.269308.265700@42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com>

On Dec 27, 12:33 pm, paul c <toledobythe..._at_oohay.ac> wrote:
> What is the point of such a notion? - is it just a strawman? What
> possible reason would one have to apply relational operators to strings,
> at least strings as most humans would read or write them? What is
> inherent in an arbitrary string that would benefit from the
> organizational or inferencing abilities of the RM?

It is my feeling that a set-based, declarative approach to string processing would have pretty much the same benefits that a set-based, declarative approach to anything else does.

Marshall Received on Sun Dec 31 2006 - 13:11:55 CST