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  • From: Peter Flynn <peter@s...>
  • To: xml-dev@l...
  • Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2022 08:09:32 +0100

On 02/09/2022 03:19, Liam R. E. Quin wrote:
[...]
You could equally well say that [relational] database designers
failed to learn from Unix. It might simply be fairer to say the two
groups worked in different domains,
I think of them more as levels in the data model: the database, relational or not, manages abstractions which elide large parts of the Unix view of data as being unlabelled, line-oriented, delimited, plain text.

much as, years later, data-oriented and document-first XML people
didn't always see eye to eye.
Still don't, in some quarters :-)

Peter


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