Re: Choice quote

"Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote in message news:Klqld.333582$wV.2232_at_attbi_s54...
> I started reading "Query Evaluation Techniques for Large Databases"
> this morning. Here's a quote from page 1:
>
> "While database
> management systems are standard
> tools in business data processing, they
> are only slowly being introduced to all
> the other emerging database application
> areas.
>
> "In most of these new application domains,
> database management systems
> have traditionally not been used for two
> reasons. First, restrictive data definition
> and manipulation languages can make
> application development and maintenance
> unbearably cumbersome. Research
> into semantic and object-oriented data
> models and into persistent database programming
> languages has been addressing
> this problem and will eventually lead
> to acceptable solutions.
>
>
> Made me think of Dawn.

how sweet ;-)
I'm taking time off from talking so much (sometimes without saying anything of worth) to learn a bit more, but I'm trying to keep up with reading this list too. Today I started reading Watt's "Programming Language Design Concepts" which is a good overview and if I could afford the time, I would finish reading it today too -- good stuff.

I'm also looking into 1st order predicate logic and queries on nested relations (or any values considered "non-scalar") since I haven't yet grasped where the problem is that makes people say that 1st order predicate logic cannot handle such relations. So far, I've learned a bit, but nothing that turns the mush in my brain into something really clear and crisp.

Have a good week! --dawn Received on Mon Nov 15 2004 - 04:25:57 CET