Re: Object-oriented thinking in SQL context?
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:06:17 -0300
Message-ID: <4a39af2c$0$23761$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>
paul c wrote:
>> Marshall wrote: >> >>> On Jun 15, 12:38 am, David BL <davi..._at_iinet.net.au> wrote: >>> >>>> On Jun 12, 10:42 pm, Marshall <marshall.spi..._at_gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> ... >>> >>>> I came here because I'm researching the concurrent editing of data >>>> using Operational Transform (OT). I'm interested in recursive data >>>> types that for example are associated with scene graphs. >> >> I suggest a more appropriate venue might be comp.graphics.research >> ...
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> I don't know what this particular OT is, perhaps important-sounding
> newspeak for what I think of as optimization, a topic that usually seems
> to have surprisingly narrow scope as far as most people are concerned.
No, he is talking about distributed collaborative editing of documents over high latency networks. OT relies on transformations of the physical locations within some representation of the document. A quick wikipeducation reveals research has been done using transforms on a single linear address space and on sets of linear address spaces. David's posts suggests he is more interested in the latter.
If David believes I have stifled research into this topic by censoring this newsgroup, as he seems to accuse me of, he is seriously deluded. It's not censorship or even incivility that keep primary researchers out of newsgroups: it's the self-aggrandizing ignorants, cranks, trolls, snake-oil salesmen, homework seekers etc. who do that by taking up too much time and resources.
It's actually censorship that protects the collegial environment primary researchers retreated to: peer review and university hiring procedures. That censorship keeps the self-aggrandizing ignorants, cranks, trolls, and snake-oil salemen at bay. Received on Thu Jun 18 2009 - 05:06:17 CEST