Re: In an RDBMS, what does "Data" mean?

"x" <x-false_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:40e07630$1_at_post.usenet.com...
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> "Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote in message
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> > > > I was more thinking of something like the relational algebra,
> > > > with its minimal set of operators, additional operators defined
> > > > in terms of the minimal ones, and a definition of what it means
> > > > for a set of operators to be complete. Only for lists.
> > > >
> > > > Frighteningly, if I can't find something like that, I may have
> > > > to do it myself.
> > >
> > > "Spight list algebra". Sounds good. :-)
> >
> > I'll get right on it. :-)
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> Some keywords: monoid, kleene algebra, word/term rewriting systems, lambda
> calculus, algebra, coalgebra, bialgebra, boolean algebra, semi-structured,
> Goedel, Turing, Post, Church, Kleene, Markov, Chomsky, etc.

I expect you were trying to be helpful, but by being so inclusive, you left me with way to big field to cover. It is as if you suggest I go google for "math."

Those items on the list I'm familiar with (lambda calculus, algebra, boolean algebra, semi-structure, Goedel, Turing, Church) don't suggest anything about a list algebra to me.

Marshall Received on Tue Jun 29 2004 - 03:58:36 CEST