Re: cdt glossary 0.1.1 [Transaction]

From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:38:41 +0200
Message-ID: <4627a88e$0$337$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>

paul c wrote:
> mAsterdam wrote:

>> ...
>> Hi paulc, sorry, I only have the first edition.
>> ...

>
> I seem to remember that the first edition had more or less the same
> chapter four. Anyway, the authors have kindly made it publicly
> available at http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hugh/TTM/APPXA.pdf

http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hugh/TTM/CHAP04.pdf No 'transaction' definition here?! There is talk about transactions from p7 to 11, but not something showing relevance (or irrelevance) of the order of work, which was Brian's point (right?). Did I overlook it?

> Much in TTM is over my head but that doesn't mean I don't recommend it
> to people who are more ambitious than I. Also free is the authors'
> chapter five, from which a careful reader may divine many of their
> secondary motives. These two guys think and write more carefully than
> pretty much any of the other commercial authors, in fact I'd say that's
> also true when they are compared to the majority of academics.

I agree, I think their work is impressive. Moreover, the formulate it in a challenging way: they are inviting the people they disagree with for discussion. Unfortunately AFAIK nobody has taken up that glove. Received on Thu Apr 19 2007 - 12:38:41 CDT