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So, were you writing DB software before Codd's research at IBM was available?
by kimdotcom 8y ago
So, were you writing DB software before Codd's research at IBM was available?
- A_Person 8y agoYes indeed. I haven't checked his research dates, but I was writing database software in the late (uh) 60s and early 70s. I think that was even before "goto harmful". I still remember our standards officer saying, let's try some of this structured programming stuff!
- A_Person 8y agoFurther to my other reply, I've just checked the intertubes, and found that Codd's paper "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks" was published in 1970, and Dijkstra's "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" in 1968. So I think my fading memories of all this are accurate (for once!).