Path: news.f.de.plusline.net!news-fra1.dfn.de!news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!NNTP.WPI.EDU!elk.ncren.net!newsflash.concordia.ca!News.Dal.Ca!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: The term "theory" as in "database theory" References: <1169836825.076438.178700@v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> <1169879616.314041.298460@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> <1169918077.195599.306820@v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> <1169925257.916301.266650@v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> <1169931230.001377.202990@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1169932263.158738.17820@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com> <1170086916.452985.274240@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> <1170423830.661834.14240@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1170423830.661834.14240@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 17 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:20:08 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.176.57.176 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aliant.net X-Trace: ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca 1170426008 142.176.57.176 (Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:20:08 AST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:20:08 AST Organization: Business Internet Xref: news.f.de.plusline.net comp.databases.theory:41703 Tony D wrote: > On Feb 1, 4:40 pm, Bob Badour wrote: > >>And here: >> >>http://www.schnada.de/quotes/contempt.html#plex > > My favourite of these : > > "It is time to unmask the computing community as a Secret Society for > the Creation and Preservation of Artificial Complexity." > > How true, and how sad. Sadly, Edsger has left the building. Indeed, he has. One wonders whether anyone else will ever step up to the plate and say the unpleasant truths.