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[K.S. Bhaskar]

Tim C wrote, On 06/02/2007 08:53 AM:
> On 02/06/07, *Adrian Midgley* <amidgley2 at defoam.net 
> <mailto:amidgley2 at defoam.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Tim Churches wrote:
>      > If I were going to choose a 1970 database technology, I'd go for PICK
>      > for elegance, but MUMPS does seem to work
>     Many people who choose a 1970 database technology select an rdbms
>     using SQL.
> 
>     It isn't new.  er
> 
>     "Dr. E.F. Codd, an IBM researcher, first developed the relational data
>     model in 1970. In 1985, Dr. Codd published a list of 12 rules that
>     concisely define an ideal relational database, which have provided a
>     guideline for the design of all relational database systems ever
>     since. "
> 
> 
> Yes, but relational DBMSes didn't become popular and widely deployed 
> until the 1980s, and databases which conformed to a standard SQL 
> interface not until the late 1980s, whereas things like network and 
> hierarchical databases, and MUMPS and PICK were very popular and widely 
> used much earlier than that. But in many ways, MUMPS and PICK have a lot 
> in common with XML and object data bases, which are a lot more modern 
> than relational systems. But modernism isn't everything - it is not, per 
> se, good. What is good is what works well in practice.

[KSB] Thank you, Tim, I was beginning to think I would have to give up 
the wheel, which was invented a couple of years before MUMPS!

I joke that the M in XML stands for MUMPS.

Regards
-- Bhaskar