On 17/09/21 04:26, Michael Nolan wrote:
In the same 1971 seminar where we studied Algol-68, we had to read and
write a short paper on the 1970 Codd paper on relational theory,
which had only been out for about a year. The professor running the
seminar noted that Codd proved that the relational model worked, but
didn't guarantee that it worked efficiently enough to be implementable
without immense computer resources, which of course became available.
--
Mike Nolan
Developing an effective optimizer might have helped ...
Cheers,
Gavin
