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.
>> --
>> Mike Nolan
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> Developing an effective optimizer might have helped ...
Just a Simple Matter of Engineering... /s
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