> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Han Tacoma
... > Became a Systems Engineer, Sales Rep., Product Planner for SQL/DS, > worked with early "natural language", "knowledge based system" products, > and then retired from IBM (in South America, Caribeean, Europe, USA > and Canada) Did you have anything to do with InfoMarket, cryptolopes, etc.? There's hardly a machine or acronym there that isn't familiar to me... but I should note that I was 9 years old in 1965. > We could not say that "Relational Databases" are better than "Hierarchical > databases" -- IMS served it's purpose very well when "System R" was > still under development in California. How about "Record I/O," which was what DEC called databases in the early 70s? Or were you forbidden to touch such devices as the PDP-8? > Object Oriented programming has now been overshadowed by other > paradigms and this only confirms that old adage "the only constant in the > universe is change". Aspect-oriented programming seems to be the latest... Nick _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
