From: M Douglas McIlroy <m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] cut, paste, join, etc.
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 20:08:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKH6PiUq57sJws=Wk9dvaqN5umvBKLNYr8ow5Q0Z4ywGNbtaZQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Will Senn wrote,
> join seems like part of an aborted (aka never fully realized) attempt at a text based rdb to me
As the original author of join, I can attest that there was no thought
of parlaying join into a database system. It was inspired by
databases, but liberated from them, much as grep was liberated from an
editor.
Doug
next reply other threads:[~2021-02-17 1:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-17 1:08 M Douglas McIlroy [this message]
2021-02-17 1:16 ` Will Senn
2021-02-17 1:43 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-02-17 2:26 ` Will Senn
2021-02-17 4:08 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-02-17 10:14 ` John Gilmore
2021-02-17 14:52 ` Andrew Hume
2021-02-17 23:58 ` Dan Cross
2021-02-17 20:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-22 5:57 ` Tomasz Rola
2021-02-17 3:29 ` John Cowan
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-02-18 20:20 Brian Walden
2021-02-18 20:41 ` Anthony Martin
2021-02-16 20:33 Will Senn
2021-02-16 21:02 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-16 21:15 ` Will Senn
2021-02-16 21:26 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-16 21:06 ` Dennis Boone
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