Re: Sensible and NonsenSQL Aspects of the NoSQL Hoopla

From: James K. Lowden <jklowden_at_speakeasy.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 23:00:46 -0400
Message-Id: <20130827230046.0a68434b.jklowden_at_speakeasy.net>


On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 03:20:44 -0700 (PDT) karl.scheurer_at_o2online.de wrote:

> Since data structures became part of the standard library of modern
> programming languages I prefer a more sophisticated approach.

Many programming languages had data structures when the relational model was invented. Not all, of course, not Forth for example. But Cobol, Fortran, Algol, and PL/1 did.

What we have not seen the decades since is anything like the sophistication of set theory in programming languages.

--jkl Received on Wed Aug 28 2013 - 05:00:46 CEST

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