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Thank you for this research. Reading about it and listening a talk from Percona's employees, I had similar thoughts, that the reasons for such name are just ma

by postila 11y ago

Thank you for this research. Reading about it and listening a talk from Percona's employees, I had similar thoughts, that the reasons for such name are just marketing-related. Actually, any traditional tree structure can be considered as recursive. So this name is just a trick. Thanks.

dalke 11y ago
As a caveat, I've never heard of this term before so may be wrong. I'm more pointing out the tools available, which I've used for similar sorts of analysis for other works and giving you a quick independent analysis. Regarding your phrase "just a trick". In general, if you see a trademark then it's a "trick", as in a 'gimmick .. or device used to attain some end'. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gimmick#Noun https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gimmick#Noun . But 'trick' also has the negative meaning 'Something designed to fool or swindle', ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trick#Noun https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trick#Noun ) which is not the case here. Personally, I would be happier with the term "just marketing", since a point of trademarks is to be distinguishable in the market, and because that phrase is a closer fit to the negative connotation I think you want to portray.