Re: Fabian Pascal, completely different?

Bruce C. Baker wrote:

"paul c" <toledobythesea@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:VDTni.130692$xq1.19454@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Paul Mansour wrote:

I miss Fabian Pascal's criticism of the database industry, and
contributions to clear thinking on the relational model, as
dbdebunk.com has been silent for some time now. I noticed recently,
however, that he is posting (though not writing) on his other passion
on a new site:

http://fallofknowledgeandreason.blogspot.com/

Interestingly (and, to me, unobjectionably) he seems to have done a
180 degree turn in an extremely short time period - so short that I
suspect that it is not unrelated to the silence on dbdebunk.

I hope he doesn't have a similar conversion with respect to database
theory and start promoting XML.


I miss them too and glad he's kept the dbdebunk archive online but I wouldn't fault him if he forsook the db stuff for his own sake, after seeing all the crap that various db illiterates, mystics and S-O salesmen have thrown at him. He was very patient about some stupid emails I sent him several times. I couldn't figure out much from going to the link because it all seemed to have been written by other people - what do you mean by 180 degrees?

thanks,
p

To perhaps excessively over-simplify, FP's political postings in dbdebunk.com had a decidedly leftist/liberal/anti-GWB slant, while the postings on http://fallofknowledgeandreason.blogspot.com/ seem to be diametrically the opposite.

I see no evidence to conclude this. FP posts links to articles as "evidence for the suicidal decline of the west." I suspect one has to consider that many of the links are offered in a similar spirit to http://www.dbdebunk.com/quotes2006.html

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