the passing of a champion
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 15:10:39 -0700 (PDT)
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A brilliant man (Erik Naggum) recently passed away far too young. During a nostalgic reading of some of his posts and works related to him, I have run by this wonderful comment of this that I just know many in cdt will appreciate ;-)
Erik Naggum wrote:
> Kenny Tilton wrote:
> > based on what I have heard, RDb is an excuse for two ignorances:
> >
> > (1) I do not know what language to use. (answer: duhhhhhhh, lisp!!!)
> >
> > (2) I do not know what index I will want tomorrow at 3PM (answer: don't
> > quit your day job.)
>
> So you _have_ no clue. I hate it when people confirm my suspicions.
>
> People who think object-orientation is so great, have generally failed to
> grasp the value of data-driven designs despite the serious attempt at
> making such design easier to model, and think solely in terms of code-
> driven designs where their class hierarchies are poor adaptations to
> their incompetent coding styles. This is extremely depressing, as the
> interminable "software crisis" is a result of code-driven design. SGML
> and XML were attempts at promoting data-driven design that would produce
> data that was _supposedly_ independent of any application. The result is
> that people who have so little clue they should have attracted one simply
> by the sucking power of vacuum do code-driven designs in XML, which is
> _really_ retarded, and then they need to store their moronically designed
> data in databases, which is, of course, too hard given their brain-damaged
> designs, so the relational model does not "work" for them.
Apparently in his latter years he was working on some relational concepts or implementations in Lisp. Sadly he was forever driven from comp.lang.lisp in 2004 (by vociferous ignorance), so we may never know much about that final work.
KHD Received on Sat Jul 04 2009 - 00:10:39 CEST