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> Behalf Of Han Tacoma

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> 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

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