Re: Would you like to get practical experience with a DBMS of a new generation?

Oops! Alexander Lashenko <lashenko_at_unixspace.com> was seen spray-painting on a wall:
> What do you mean 'blunder'? ConteXt has aggregate fields or
> 'multi-value fields' if you call it so. What's wrong? ConteXt is not
> a relational database. Probably you never had a deal with non
> relational structures.

Here are the two Great Blunders:

1. Equating relvars with classes
2. Mixing pointers and relations (more particularly, allowing database relvars to contain object IDs). -- let name="cbbrowne" and tld="acm.org" in String.concat "_at_" [name;tld];; http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/rdbms.html Rules of the Evil Overlord #55. "The deformed mutants and odd-ball psychotics will have their place in my Legions of Terror. However before I send them out on important covert missions that require tact and subtlety, I will first see if there is anyone else equally qualified who would attract less attention." <http://www.eviloverlord.com/>