From: "Bruce Ellis" <brucee@chunder.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] is plan 9 based on XML?
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 20:32:38 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <005e01c41315$49c1b8d0$8201a8c0@cc77109e> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403260546.i2Q5k3tf066228@adat.davidashen.net>
give me a break. tell me how to do a join efficiently if
you are trying to treat any filesystem as a dataset.
of course a flat file is a database, but it suffers from
the same problem. my junk room is a database
if you are willing to linear search it to do any data op.
brucee
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Tolpin" <dvd@davidashen.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: [9fans] is plan 9 based on XML?
> > than the idea. In 1980, I was describing the Unix file system to a
> > supervisor who hadn't heard of it and he said `oh, it sounds like a
> > database system'.
>
> What is it if it is not a database? Your supervisor was a smart guy
> back in 1980.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-26 9:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-25 20:31 Ben Salzman
2004-03-25 20:34 ` ron minnich
2004-03-25 20:46 ` Ben Salzman
2004-03-26 14:22 ` Michael Jeffrey
2004-03-25 23:43 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-03-26 5:46 ` David Tolpin
2004-03-26 9:32 ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
2004-03-26 9:45 ` David Tolpin
2004-03-26 12:45 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-03-26 1:19 dmr
2004-03-26 8:46 ` C H Forsyth
2004-03-26 9:00 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-03-26 13:01 ` David Presotto
2004-03-26 13:05 ` rog
2004-03-27 1:57 dmr
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