Re: OT (sets and stuff)

> Formal systems don't have elephants in them.

I didn't get you irony. You didn't get my metaphor.

One can empirically verify that the hierarchal model's method becomes unsystematic when representing things with multiple parents. One can empirically verify that the relational model's method becomes unsystematic when it has to resort to NULLs, EAV or stored procedures to represent some type networks as in the "Find Siblings of Opposite Build" example. Received on Tue Feb 06 2007 - 10:34:40 CST