Wilderness pretty well describes where I am. I bought Knuth's "Sorting and Searching" something like 25 years ago, when I was working on KFAM, and never really understood what he was saying. This has been most helpful, though I obviously remain in kindergarten.
Though it does appear we progressed beyond the index file addressing a "separate" flat file. I guess the nice part of that system was one could read the data in the flat file, even after pointers became corrupt, AND if the data was clean re-index it with a utility. I sometimes wish I had spent that programming time on MUMPS, however, $15,000 for a compiler in 1978 $ was a great leap. Thanks for the lesson, thurman > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardhats- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard G. DAVIS > Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 10:22 AM > To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] BIG NEWS re HealtheVet- St. Petersburg Tim > 3. Discussions about relational database systems that become focused on > such base layer technologies as "B-trees" have wondered off the > reservation > and are blindly stumbling around in the wilderness. > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
