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Especially the Codd paper (what if Codd had died in World War 2?) makes me wonder: What are the non-obvious (kind of arbitrary even) yet extremely helpful conce
by ahartmetz 2y ago
Especially the Codd paper (what if Codd had died in World War 2?) makes me wonder: What are the non-obvious (kind of arbitrary even) yet extremely helpful concepts that no one has thought of or that didn't find the resonance that they should have?
- Clubber 2y agoBinary search and efficient sorting algorithms is pretty important.
- ahartmetz 2y agoI mean widely useful things, maybe not very obvious things, that no one has thought of yet or that are rotting in obscurity. If Codd hadn't basically invented relational databases, would we even know what we're missing? For example: Rust took a bunch of ideas from some research languages that one guy did 1-3 decades ago at the time. These ideas have probably always been good and useful, but they weren't put to use, not all of them at least.