Path: text.usenetserver.com!out01b.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in02.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!postnews.google.com!s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: JOG Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: The Terrific Trio Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 08:55:26 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 29 Message-ID: <817a8551-bcad-4ed2-895d-2f8be039137b@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com> References: <6vxyj.778$Td2.10@trndny08> <4dac40a1-aba4-4ae4-b5f9-f5241c94e1e1@28g2000hsw.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.243.220.21 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1204563326 6379 127.0.0.1 (3 Mar 2008 16:55:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 16:55:26 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=128.243.220.21; posting-account=H0ckjQoAAADRgkguzQRGVwl65wXgA5te User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 cache1.nottingham.ac.uk:3128 (squid/2.5.STABLE3) Xref: usenetserver.com comp.databases.theory:170222 X-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:55:26 EST (text.usenetserver.com) On Mar 3, 4:17 pm, paul c wrote: > David Cressey wrote: > > ... > > > I should have attributed the response "What are you, a wise guy?" to Moe. > > It does sound like something Moe would have said. > > I must say I get more of a kick out of the humours of different cultures > than I do out of the OO cultureclub's mixconception that any data model > is possible if enough elaborate terminology is wrapped around some > language or other. I never saw anything done in C++ that couldn't have > been done in C. *splutter* Templates paul, templates! ;) > It seems particularly North American to cover up engine > internals, whether computer or automotive, with a lot of window > dressing. Cimode may remember Jacques Tati, a film comic very famous in > France. An old (Brit) friend of mine was a fan of his and once dragged > me to an art house retrospective of Tati's films. The place was full of > earnest cinema students who took notes as they watched, as silently as > could be. Tati wasn't my cup of tea and I was quiet at first but my > friend was guffawing loudly and incessantly as soon as the lights went > down. The kids were there to study, not to laugh and were most annoyed, > glaring towards my pal and shsshing him. This got me to laughing out > loud which made those students very angry. So I enjoyed the evening > but, I was told, for completely wrong and illegitimate reasons.