Re: Temporal database - no end date

On Jan 20, 2:05 pm, "DBMS_Plumber" <paul_geoffrey_br..._at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Many of you, it is clear to me, have abandonned even the pretence of
> critical reasoning: sacrificing it on the altar of a cult. Well, Date,
> Darwen, Fabian Pascal et al are really smart people who's
> pronouncements deserve to be treated with a robust skepticism - not
> fawning adoration. In my experience useful ideas are useful precisely
> because they withstand rough handling.
>
> Many of you, on the other hand, seem to be refusing to engage the
> ideas at all.

Yes, if people disagree with you it's obvious some sort of moral flaw on their part. I'm sorry, who was it again who was refusing to engage ideas? I forgot already.

I am on public record as having both supported and attacked the ideas of Date, Pascal, Badour, and Celko, on different occasions (I don't think I've said much about Darwen) so you clearly can't mean me. And for me this issue has nothing to do with the Lorentzos book because I haven't read it, and hence have no opinions on it one way or the other. I am only opposing the patently ridiculous idea that a digital representation of an analog quantity is somehow impossible, since I do so every day.

Marshall

PS. Also, I claim the Zeno argument is irrelevant. Received on Sat Jan 20 2007 - 18:30:46 CST