Re: Reminder, blatant ad

From: Jan Hidders <jan.hidders_at_REMOVETHIS.pandora.be>
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 21:45:16 GMT
Message-ID: <Mx8Gf.242046$E16.7678047_at_phobos.telenet-ops.be>

dawn wrote:
> Jan Hidders wrote:
>

>>dawn schreef:
>>
>>>Jan Hidders wrote:
>>>>
>>>>The reason to avoid lists is
>>>>far more mundane and practical; it would make the DBMS more complex and
>>>>make tasks such as query optimization, concurrency control and integrity
>>>>maintenance harder.
>>>
>>>Harder for whom?
>>
>>The implementors of the DBMS.

>
> BINGO! Having been on the applications side of the house, I am aware
> that choices are made on user interface design decisions are sometimes
> made due to the cost of implementation or support for the developers.
> But for an entire industry to fix on that strategy when the user is a
> programmer is really dreadful. It seems someone could look at how to
> make the end-user (in this case a software developer) as productive as
> possible.

That is what has been looked at, and the claim of the relational model is that in the cases where data independence, concurrency control and integrity maintenance are important it indeed does that.

>>PS. I'm really signing off now as my train leaves within a few hours.
>>Expect a reply after a week or so. 

>
> Have a good trip. (Or, rather, I hope you had a good trip and enjoyed
> your time away from the screen and keyboard.)

Thanks. :-)

• Jan Hidders

Received on Tue Feb 07 2006 - 22:45:16 CET