On 02/09/2022 03:19, Liam R. E. Quin wrote:
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> You could equally well say that [relational] database designers
> failed to learn from Unix. It might simply be fairer to say the two
> groups worked in different domains,
I think of them more as levels in the data model: the database,
relational or not, manages abstractions which elide large parts of the
Unix view of data as being unlabelled, line-oriented, delimited, plain text.
> much as, years later, data-oriented and document-first XML people
> didn't always see eye to eye.
Still don't, in some quarters :-)
Peter
