On 9/16/21 3:21 PM, Gavin Flower wrote:
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.
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Developing an effective optimizer might have helped ...
Just a Simple Matter of Engineering... /s
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