From: Dave Dougherty

To: Editor

 

Ran across your site today.  Sounds like you are about to rediscover MultiValue technology that I have been using since 1978.  Since then I have written, implemented and supported over two dozen major applications comprising over three million lines of programming code using Pick and Pick look-alikes databases.  I would recommend you educate yourself concerning this technology, as it is unsurpassed in every respect.  In fact, most of your rants about normalized and de-normalized database structures is amusing to someone like myself who does not have to concern himself with such archaic matters.  You need to get away from the standard thinking of two-dimensional column & row structure of fixed length databases.  You seen to exhibit exactly what you write about; "the deplorable lack of fundamental knowledge in the database trade."

 

 

From: Fabian Pascal

To: Dave Dougherty

 

I'm afraid that if you sent your message after you read my site, it can only mean that you have not understood anything of what you read. See:

 

The Dangerous Illusion, Part 1 and Part 2

The follow-ups by Date and Darwen and myself

 

I suggest you educate yourself on data fundamentals and R technology and you will then see which surpasses which.

 

 

From: Dave Dougherty

 

You're a total idiot, not worth my time.  Do you understand ANYTHING about MultiValue database technology?  Obviously the answer is NO!  Also have you ever installed a system and learned anything about programming?   Have you ever written a working program?  Or you just another loudmouth like Al Sharpton???????

 

P.S.  The link you referenced does not work.  Like your database knowledge...

 

 

From: Fabian Pascal

 

So you contact me and you complain about me wasting your time? Is that your reasoning/intellectual capability? I guess you always reply to your own questions because you don't understand the answers by others. I suggest you creep back under your programming rock that you crept out from.

 

P.S.  How would you know?

 

 

Editor Comment: I leave it to the reader to decide who is the idiot loudmouth here. Let me just point out that only an uneducated ignoramus can deem normalization, rather than multivalue technology, archaic, and tables as “two-dimensional”; and can boast about his ignorance to boot. Alas, the IT world is full of Doughertys.

 

 

Posted 10/18/02

 

 

 

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