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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Windows Ada database support.
Date: 10 Dec 2004 20:47:40 +0000
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> Nobody. The problem is that we need arrays, or more generally, ordered
> containers. This is the way the most people think about tables. They do not
> think about them in terms of relations. Yes, a relational view is complete
> and you can express everything in it. But it is too low level. This is why
                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                                 too high level, I think!

> people keep on inventing ways to mark that damned rows. Nothing is wrong
> with that, but the result is, as Warren has pointed out, utter chaos.

-- 
Simon Wright                               100% Ada, no bugs.