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[Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie>]

On 02/09/2022 03:19, Liam R. E. Quin wrote:
[...]
> 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