Re: The term "theory" as in "database theory"
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:44:31 GMT
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"Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:cyowh.944$R71.13468_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
> Walt wrote:
>
> > "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.
>
> 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.
Djikstra invented the stack? When was that? Received on Fri Feb 02 2007 - 22:44:31 CET