Re: sql views for denomalizing
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 21:25:34 GMT
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"paul c" <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac> wrote in message news:lARGe.69255$5V4.58709_at_pd7tw3no...
> maybe Extracto too, in the early 1970's. IIRC, both were marketed as
> ways for end-users to avoid needing programmers who were cheap at the
> time, but rare. this created a market for more expensive report writer
> consultants. heh, now programmers are expensive and rarer still.
Heh, heh... "now we can fire all the programmers!" It's a recurring theme, isn't it?
There was an article, a long while ago, entitled "the next 700 programing languages". It was about how people keep inventing "data languages" in order to get away from programming, and then turn these "data languages" into programming lanaguages.
This business of turning data into information has been around for a long, long time. And, IMO, it'll be around for a long time to come. Received on Sat Jul 30 2005 - 23:25:34 CEST