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From: "Bruce Ellis" <brucee@chunder.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] is plan 9 based on XML?
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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 20:32:38 +1100
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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.