- From: Jim Melton <jim.melton@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:29:46 -0700
- To: "Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>
- Cc: <Paul.V.Biron@kp.org>, <rjelliffe@allette.com.au>, <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>, <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
At 3/9/2006 05:14 PM, Michael Kay wrote:
> >
> > Gee, Mike,
> >
> > I'm truly flattered at your assertion that [we] relational
> > people messed up
> > some "clean design". Didn't realize we had that much power. ;^)
>
>Well, let's just say that I think we would have had a more coherent set of
>basic data types if we hadn't had so many people throwing in their
>ha'penceworth from diametrically opposite directions.
I wouldn't argue with that...
>Come to think of it, the same is probably true of SQL.
In SPADES!
Jim
>Mike
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