Tom L

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since November 26, 2003

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November 26, 2003, on Introduction to Database Management Systems:
Actually, the ACM do make A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks freely available, but that's the exception rather than the rule.
January 25, 2004, on The book behind the book behind the book...:
Let's compare average lifetimes of CDs and URLs. If you'd put the CD in, it would still be working today, unlike your URL. If you'd given the keywords needed to track the page down with a search engine, that might have helped (c.f. fish.cx), but I'd still prefer the CD.