Re: Temporal database - no end date
From: Marshall <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 20 Jan 2007 16:30:46 -0800
Message-ID: <1169339446.697515.27120_at_s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
Date: 20 Jan 2007 16:30:46 -0800
Message-ID: <1169339446.697515.27120_at_s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
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.
PS. Also, I claim the Zeno argument is irrelevant. Received on Sun Jan 21 2007 - 01:30:46 CET