Re: Decline of Science: Computer Science and Databases

Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote:

[snip]

>You are "not particularly
>good, lack a formal CS
>education" and yet have the
>gall to rant at particulary
>intelligent people, such as Mr
>Hidders? Are the rants of
>Fabian your sole source of
>education on databases?

This attack of the poster
indicates a lack of education
in logic, let alone in a small
area such as relational
databases. "If even the devil
states 2 x 2 = 4, I am going
to believe him." (Waldenström)

>Finally, a question: One of
>Codd's requirements for a
>Proper relational database is
>rejected by Date (and hence
>Dataphor). Can you name it?
>Does this mean that Dataphor
>is a TDDMS rather than an
>RDMS?
Were Codd's original
requirements necessarily
perfect? If so, why have
people deviated from them in
any way whatsoever? If not,
isn't possible they and the
theory could be improved?

--
Jan Theodore Galkowski, (o°)
  relational algebra, C, Lua, ETL,
  logical modeling, SQL, Smalltalk,
  DGL,  PalmOS, embedded, AIX,
  Unix, Windows


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