> Paul Gilmartin wrote: > Who made that moronic "single byte" rule!?
Back then, saving bytes was the norm and would not be considered moronic. 2 bytes could radically increase the size of your programs. A few extra bytes added to transfer time. A few bytes was significant. > It's startling how difficult it can be to shift paradigm > beyond "two modes of thought" and invent another. It's not difficult all. There are 3 paradigm (structured, unstructured and a mix of both). Consider the worst case scenario (unstructured). Think of it like a book where you must read thru it to find what you need. Add a table of contents and index will give will give you a mix where reading the book may not be necessary. We are continually shifting the paradigm. We started with records. I believe next was ISAM followed by databases & VSAM. Databases were significant because we could finally move to a mix of unstructured data. You could apply additional structure to the data as it was discovered. The next step will probably be within "big data". Regards, Jon
