Re: which softeware can create database?

In article <wD_z9.304$CZ4.163481633_at_radon.golden.net>, Bob Badour <bbadour_at_golden.net> wrote:
>"Jan Hidders" <hidders_at_REMOVE.THIS.uia.ua.ac.be> wrote in message
>news:3dd01ee1$1_at_news.uia.ac.be...
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>> [...] If you think that any criticism on the relational model is
>> perverse, no matter how well-founded it is, then that says probably more
>> about your intellectual attitude than mine.
>
>I have never said such nor do I think such. What does that say?

I wrote "*if* you think ...".

>> Note by the way that most of my criticism has been directed at the
>> over-simplified arguments that are used to defend it here and the
>> uncritical way in which Date and Darwen's views are regarded by some, and
>> not so much at the relational model itself.
>
>I don't see what's wrong with a simple argument for a simple issue.

That's where we differ. IMO you represent certain things as simple, which really are not.

>If you want to highlight complexities, expand discussions, nudge people to
>explore new territories, please do.

Yeah, that sums up pretty much what I am trying to do. :-)

>I don't find your recent approach with Leandro very constructive,
>productive, effective or illuminating.

I'm only human. Sometimes if I think people behave with unjustified arrogance I react with what I believe to be justified arrogance. It is wrong, unwise and unbecoming, but that's who I am.

• Jan Hidders