* Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch> [020730 08:01]:
> On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 13:46, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> > I think one of the values of it is that it is something that no one else
> > has. It distinguishes us.
>
> Coooool. Let's have the 'automatically phone KFC if developer works more
> than 8 hours non-stop' feature, *that* is something nobody else has.
> Yes. Cool.
Excuse me all to hell but are you in the junior debating class or what?
No one said we need to include every possible feature just because it
is not in other products. Your KFC suggestion has nothing whatsoever
to do with database management. Inheritance does. It is useful to
some and, as I said *one of the values* is the way it distinguishes us.
For the record, I do use the feature and I would miss it if it disappeared.
I think it can be improved upon, especially in the area of indexes and
prmary keys but overall it is a nice feature that has the added benefit
of differentiating us from other RDBMS systems.
> As an implementor I'm always wary of using features nobody else has,
How very conservative of you. Personally I have spent my life trying
to do new things. If I wanted Oracle or DB2 I know where to find it.
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