Re: Where is everybody?

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:34:41 GMT
Message-ID: <RXKUh.25023$PV3.252356@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>

Marshall wrote:

> On Apr 11, 4:45 pm, Matthias Klaey <m..._at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>

>>(sorry I don't mean to be rude, but it seems to me that the corpus of
>>mathematics that underlies database theory is still very much
>>underappreciated, even here.)

>
> Most of the people here are working software engineers.
> I would say that an underappreciation of underlying
> mathematics is endemic. I suspect that the contributions
> of software engineering are underappreciated in the
> mathematical community. We generally have to tackle
> much larger, more complex, less well defined problems
> than they do, under more stringent computational conditions.
> Nonetheless there are those such as Aloha who seek to
> bridge the gap. The reference to further reading is helpful;
> the ironic comment less so.

I know you and I probably disagree. I don't find the ironic comment unhelpful either. In fact, I quietly agreed with Matthias. I agree I don't have sufficient appreciation for the mathematics.

Of the regular denizens of the newsgroup, I suggest only Jan and Vadim showed up here with any true appreciation, and that appreciation has only rubbed off on you. Received on Mon Apr 16 2007 - 08:34:41 CDT