Re: The term "theory" as in "database theory"
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:09:20 GMT
Message-ID: <kEOwh.1581$R71.20984_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
>>Walt wrote:
>>
>>>"dawn" <dawnwolthuis_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>news:1170086916.452985.274240_at_p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...
>>>
>>>>On Jan 27, 3:11 pm, "Marshall" <marshall.spi..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Jan 27, 12:53 pm, "dawn" <dawnwolth..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>We can still talk about simplicity as a heuristic, and from my
>>>>perspective it is overall simplicity that is desired, not the simplest
>>>>code, the simplest model, etc, but the simplest overall solution that
>>>>meets the requirements for the software.
>>>>
>>>>Make sense or not? Thanks. --dawn
>>>
>>>this last doesn't make sense.
>>
>>Contrast Dawn's idiotic nonsense with Dijkstra's "austere intellectual
>>discipline":
>>http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD898.html
>>
>>Then again, many of Dijkstra's contributions seem like trivialities
>>today: the stack, the semaphore, shortest path.
>
> Djikstra invented the stack? When was that?
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:09:20 GMT
Message-ID: <kEOwh.1581$R71.20984_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
Walt wrote:
> "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?
Back in the 1950's before folks thought to build them into CPU's: http://www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/2002-2003/memorials/Dijkstra/dijkstra.html
Um, apparently in 1959:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/EWD1303.html
Received on Fri Feb 02 2007 - 23:09:20 CET