From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-03-22T07:21:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 07:10:05AM +0900, Clifford Heath wrote:
> Gary Wright wrote:
> >I'm curious as to why query language development got hung up on SQL.
> >I've read a little bit about Tutorial D.  Is SQL simply
> >another example of pre-mature standardization?
> 
> There's a different kind of standardization?

There are at least four types of standardization:

  1. premature standardization
  2. post-obsolescence standardization
  3. theoretically optimal standardization, which may or may not be real
  4. Microsoft standardization, which is anti-standardization with a bow

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