- From: Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 17:57:30 +0100
- To: edz@bsn.com
- CC: www-zig@w3.org
> Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 12:36:39 +0200 (MEST) > From: "Edward C. Zimmermann" <edz@elmyra.bsn.com> > >> I'm not in a position to comment on history. However, I can't let >> this discussion go past without observing that, in this day and >> age, there's no reason to perpetuate this historical distinction >> between databases and result sets -- or, for that matter, between >> databases/result sets and records. They're all just lumps of data, >> structured together in various ways. > > Can or should we start to try to apply all the methods in a > consistent manner across target, result set and presents? Yes, that's it precisely. I couldn't have said it better myself. _/|_ _______________________________________________________________ /o ) \/ Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com> http://www.miketaylor.org.uk )_v__/\ "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent" -- Eleanor Roosevelt. -- Listen to my wife's new CD of kids' music, _Child's Play_, at http://www.pipedreaming.org.uk/childsplay/
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