Re: Interested in a moderated theory forum?

"Christopher Browne" <cbbrowne_at_acm.org> wrote in message news:bui7ne$hqd0t$1_at_ID-125932.news.uni-berlin.de...
>
> For there to be progress, there needs to be a certain balance of
> orthodoxy and unorthodoxy.
>
> People that do not understand what already is, that don't understand
> the "orthodox" position, only have a vanishingly minscule chance of
> discovering something 'new' without having it fall prey to heading
> down futile paths because they do not have any framework of
> understanding to avoid disasters.
>
> It seems to me that this nicely characterizes the whole
> using-XML-for-everything movement; people promote it as a buzzword.

Very nicely put.

> comp.databases.theory
> suffers from there being only two extremes present, one involving
> fairly doctrinaire orthodoxy, and the other the period visits by
> people that tend to have _no_ idea of existing database theory.

That's certainly the bulk of the traffic. But even when it's otherwise, orthodoxy asserts itself.

Marshall Received on Tue Jan 20 2004 - 04:40:07 CET