Re: Dreaming About Redesigning SQL

Marshall Spight kirjutas N, 23.10.2003 kell 11:01:
> "Anthony W. Youngman" <thewolery@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:NZJktvDi7yj$EwcG@thewolery.demon.co.uk...
> > Just like the academics were
> > brainwashed into thinking that microkernels were the be-all and end-all
> > - until Linus showed them by practical example that they were all idiots
...
> Linus set out to build a unix kernel workalike, and he chose
> the easiest path, copying architecture from the 1970s, along
> with all the weaknesses that those idiot academics had identified
> years earlier. Since then, his monolithic kernel has gotten a lot
> of marketshare, due to a number of different reasons, none of
> them being architectural superiority.

Unless you count as architectural superiority the fact that it can be
actually written and debugged in a reasonable time.

Being able to mathematically define something as not having certain
weaknesses does not quarantee that the thing can be actually implemented
and/or is usable.

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Hannu