Re: Guessing?


"Gene Wirchenko" <genew@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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paul c <toledobysea@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

I say it is willful to say "should be deterministic", it sort-of sounds
good but from what I know it is contradictory with other goals people
like Date talk about, such as making views behave the same way as base
relations. If a dbms' logic admits boolean 'or', then traditional
programming notions of determinism can't be satisfied. I'll take a
consistent logic over niceties any day, even if that puts me in a
minority - I'm already a member of many other minorities, in fact I'm a
member of more minorities than the number of majorities most people I've
met who were in majorities were in, even though many of them think I'm
not even in a minority!

If you are a member of more minorities than most other people,
then that puts you in another minority. If you can keep track of all
those minorities, there is another minority.

BTW, "elite" is a shorter word, and it sounds better.

Unless you're a politician.


Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation:
I have preferences.
You have biases.
He/She has prejudices.


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