Re: theory and practice: ying and yang

Alfredo Novoa wrote:
> On Wed, 25 May 2005 12:28:52 GMT, "mountain man"
> <hobbit_at_southern_seaweed.com.op> wrote:
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> The practice of DBMS has not substatially changed in 20 years.
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too right. lots of playing (practicing?) at fiddlesticks though. practice is as dominated by pseudo-coders (eg. XML) and paper-pushers (eg. UML) as it was in IMS days.

if you ask me, which admittedly you didn't, the number one problem or at least the most insidious problem is that none of the so-called new technology is aimed at letting people easily add their own domains to a DB engine (for example, people still argue about how to 'normalize' a mailing address!). this seems a central requirement of the theoretical RM. most of the world thinks we can manage technology when the reverse is closer to reality. the tool-pushers blithely ignore these facts, all the while giving 'reality' as justification.

pc Received on Wed May 25 2005 - 16:47:07 CEST