Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Bob Badour User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: A good book References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 20 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 12:54:04 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.176.125.44 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aliant.net X-Trace: ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca 1152276844 142.176.125.44 (Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:54:04 ADT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:54:04 ADT Organization: Sympatico-Subscriber Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.theory:43151 Chris Smith wrote: > Bob Badour wrote: > >>That's a difficult one. I don't know whether I would say Fabian Pascal's >>_Practical Issues..._ or Date/Darwen's _TTM_ or maybe one of Date's >>earlier _Writings..._ books. >> >>Perhaps it would be better to just direct him to the EWD archive at utexas. > > So far as I'm aware, Edgar Dijkstra did not do significant work in the > area of relational database theory. I understand that you like his > approaches to things, and I share much of your appreciation for > Dijkstra's work... but I'm looking for something a little more specific > here. > > I will look into the books you mentioned beforehand, and see what other > opinions I can find to distinguish between them. Thanks. Dijkstra wrote a lot about the predicate calculus, about elegance etc.