Re: pro- foreign key propaganda?
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 16:54:53 GMT
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Bob Badour wrote:
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> bullshit." ? I am not entirely sure I understand what you mean when you
> use the word mysticism.
The mystics here are the people who confuse a system with the reality that the system only mimics imperfectly, the system being at most a mere metaphor, for example pretending that an algebraic structure somehow embodies actual 'entities' or thinking that there is actually a relational operator called 'update', when Codd was obviously using the word 'update' only as a way to sound familiar to his audience.
They are a subset of the masses who cannot make change without a computer. I remember when slide-rules were not allowed at some exams, today I meet people in the mechanical field who cannot even operate a calculator! That's part of the new reality in the modern semi-literate western societies, not to mention those who confuse oligarchy for democracy! Received on Thu May 22 2008 - 11:54:53 CDT