Ben Finney schrieb: > Mick Krippendorf <mad.m...@gmx.de> writes: > The word “anormal” appears to have been made up by you. > The negation of the word “normal” is “abnormal”, perhaps you meant > “First Abnormal Form”?
Maybe my English (and my memory) is just not so good. I'm german, and here "abnormal" and "anormal" are both negations of "normal", but with a slight difference in meaning. "anormal" means just "not normal", whereas the meaning of "abnormal" is more like "perverted". That's of course the better word for the case at hand. > That term was in use when E. F. Codd was originally describing the normal > forms, and seemed to imply a database that was in even worse shape than 0NF. > More recently, this witty commenter at Daily WTF has defined a plausible > (though certainly not universally-agreed) set of abnormal forms > <URL:http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Roll_Your_Own_Clustered_Index.aspx#121564>. That's better. I'll keep googling though, because I distinctly remember, if nothing else, that I have read "First Abnormal Form" being used for the comma separation stuff. Mick. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list