On 27 Jul 2009, at 10:49pm, CityDev wrote: > Codd had his 'extended relational model' and I think Chris Date has > got the > Third Manifesto. Unfortunately people can't be satisfied they've > invented > something really, really simple and just feel proud, they want to > become > professors and write impenetrably clever papers that only their > colleagues > can follow.
You don't get the big bucks for becoming an internationally-known inventor of an incredibly useful data-handling paradigm. But a tenured professor can earn big bucks for years. I work at a university and I meet this sort of person every day. Simon. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list [email protected] http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
