On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Clive Crous <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 2009/4/17 Todd Benson <[email protected]>:
> ...
>>  You can even get really crazy and use continued fractions as part of
>> the path method (see Vladim Trapishko's work).  Obviously, one has to
> ...
>> Show me data integrity and good queries and then you have my vote.  Oh
>> wait, I forget, you have to write a bunch of unit tests first (okay, I
>> lost the whole ruby community with that one; my bad)
>
> Your entire post unfortunately smacks horribly of much theoretical
> study and zero practical implementation. I, as one that designs
> database structures for a living, even for banking systems would have
> to disagree with most of what you said as, theoretical mumbo jumbo and
> unusable in real world applications ;) but then -- that is of course
> just my opinion.
>
> Clive

Clive, no bad words.  I think we agree to disagree.  I take some
offense to the "theoretical mumbo jumbo" comment, since I've dealt
with ERP systems for several years.  In any case, I apologize to the
OP for turning this into a side show.

The object referencing itself thing may work in some situations.  Just
know what you are getting yourself into, is all.

Todd

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