Re: The horse race

"Marshall Spight" <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>Mark Johnson wrote:
>> "Marshall Spight" <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>> >> And you should know better.

>> >I thought you said that personal attacks were uncalled for.

>> You shouldn't do such a thing. You should know better.

>That's a personal attack.

No, it's not. It's a reminder that /you/ not engage in such. You can't invert that and turn it around. It doesn't even begin to work, that way.

Furthermore, I think I understand any trepidation in facing such simple examples as the Presidents, or the horse race, or the layout for tomorrow's paper, in that if any tie between a real database of tables is further severed with the RM which supposedly inspired it by the introduction of a simple sort, then the utility of the db remains, while the RM perhaps is seen to recede further into the lofts of academia. If that's the case, if it is, then such concerns would seem unwarranted. But it might truly suggest that there is indeed a mismatch between such implementation and such theory. And, for myself, I don't even think that's a controversial suggestion. Received on Thu Feb 23 2006 - 05:22:42 CET