Re: Why is "group by" obligatory in SQL?
From: paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:34:08 GMT
Message-ID: <4Voam.38010$PH1.33921_at_edtnps82>
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> The irony I meant was Dijkstra coined the term "structured programming".
> You praised Dijkstra and then criticized structured programming. I
> realize the market corrupted and perverted the term, but I enjoyed the
> irony.
> ...
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:34:08 GMT
Message-ID: <4Voam.38010$PH1.33921_at_edtnps82>
Bob Badour wrote:
> paul c wrote:
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>> Bob Badour wrote: >> ... >> >>> Your response leaves me wondering whether you know what irony I meant >>> and wondering what irony you mean. >> >> I'd say the basic one is that most language designers pretend to >> depict reality, most users then look on the result as reality.
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> The irony I meant was Dijkstra coined the term "structured programming".
> You praised Dijkstra and then criticized structured programming. I
> realize the market corrupted and perverted the term, but I enjoyed the
> irony.
> ...
Ha, I must have forgotten that, never could get used to that language he used, was it Pascal? Past a certain age, most people are stuck with whatever they grew up with.
> The market also corrupted and perverted the term "separation of
> concerns", which Dijkstra called an austere mental discipline.
Hardly anything is what's it's called anymore. Somebody was telling me this a.m. that BC is 'harmonizing' sales tax. When I looked closer, it appears to be instead, a tax increase. Nothing harmonious about that ! Received on Fri Jul 24 2009 - 22:34:08 CEST