Re: Object-oriented thinking in SQL context?
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:48:39 GMT
Message-ID: <baFXl.31236$PH1.28420_at_edtnps82>
David BL wrote:
> On Jun 10, 10:10 am, paul c <toledobythe..._at_oohay.ac> wrote:
>> David BL wrote:
>>> On Jun 10, 9:44 am, paul c <toledobythe..._at_oohay.ac> wrote:
>>>> David BL wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>>> This is clearly intended to mock, and in a nasty way. It is typical of
>>>>> BB. Perhaps BB could himself do with some suggestions for reading
>>>>> material - books with titles like "How to win friends and influence
>>>>> people".
>>>>> Of course Reinier was also mocking various regulars in the newsgroup.
>>>>> However, I found his comment quite amusing - and nothing like BB's
>>>>> aggressive tone. BB's reaction also suggests lack of balance.
>>>> Maybe you should count yourself lucky that you didn't get called for >>>> suggesting a paradox could ever be a foundation, aka DVA's! >>> What paradox would that be? >> Russell's. > > I know Russel's paradox. What has that got to do with it? >
What I suggest you do is look for his Intro. to Math. Philo., (it might help you if you were to concentrate), a pretty skinny book compared to most in the db field. Unlike his other theoretical stuff, it was aimed at the the layman, in particular, various self-taught technologists and interested readers of the time who had been introduced such theory and spent their Monday evenings at the local scientific society meetings in pre-WWI Britain, albeit ones whose first language was English. It may not tell you in five words why DVA's are paradoxes, and it may not tell most readers why "DA's" (not data administrators, ha, ha), aren't paradoxes, but it may give you some practice that would help to see why values that refer to the context that refers to them are a distortion of the recursion idea. I'd guess you could read parts of it for free on google books. It pisses me off that various publisers like Cambridge Univ. help to pay their useless bureaucrats by preserving copyrights of dead people. On the other hand, this keeps those off the welfare rolls. It is perhaps the the first book to anticipate Codd, maybe by more than fifty years. Received on Wed Jun 10 2009 - 04:48:39 CEST