Re: The term "theory" as in "database theory"
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:40:02 GMT
Message-ID: <CJowh.955$R71.13464_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
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> Contrast Dawn's idiotic nonsense with Dijkstra's "austere intellectual
> discipline":
> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD898.html
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> Then again, many of Dijkstra's contributions seem like trivialities
> today: the stack, the semaphore, shortest path.
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:40:02 GMT
Message-ID: <CJowh.955$R71.13464_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
Bob Badour wrote:
> Walt wrote:
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>> "dawn" <dawnwolthuis_at_gmail.com> wrote in message >> news:1170086916.452985.274240_at_p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com... >> >>> On Jan 27, 3:11 pm, "Marshall" <marshall.spi..._at_gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On Jan 27, 12:53 pm, "dawn" <dawnwolth..._at_gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>> We can still talk about simplicity as a heuristic, and from my >>> perspective it is overall simplicity that is desired, not the simplest >>> code, the simplest model, etc, but the simplest overall solution that >>> meets the requirements for the software. >>> >>> Make sense or not? Thanks. --dawn >> >> >> this last doesn't make sense.
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> Contrast Dawn's idiotic nonsense with Dijkstra's "austere intellectual
> discipline":
> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD898.html
>
> Then again, many of Dijkstra's contributions seem like trivialities
> today: the stack, the semaphore, shortest path.
And here:
http://www.schnada.de/quotes/contempt.html#plex Received on Thu Feb 01 2007 - 17:40:02 CET