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November 25 2009

sixtus42
11:15
Computing history will consider the past 20 years as a kind of Dark Ages of commercial data processing in which the religious zealots of the Church of Relationalism managed to hold back progress until a Renaissance rediscovered the Greece and Rome of pointer-based databases. Database research has produced a number of good results, but the relational database is not one of them.
"Relational Databases", Comm. of the ACM 35,4 (April 1992), 16,18. via janl
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