Re: Design shift of view

[boothm@xxxxxxx]

I know a few programmers that would absolutely love this solution.  They'd
adopt it in a heartbeat.  They'd never quite understand it, but they'd
adopt it.  

The resulting quagmire makes me twitch.  I still have three WSU programs I
need to maintain.  This is not my idea of fun.  Please don't add new
conceptual stuff that can not be effectively implemented by average
programmers.  The stuff requiring expert and expert-plus programmers may
serve a purpose somewhere, but hopefully no place I go.

In <35BA882E.1FC369E8@ibm.net>, on 07/25/98 
   at 06:36 PM, "James W. Kilgore" <qappdsn@ibm.net> said:

>  Well, if we can
>pass a variable number of parameters to a program, why couldn't a RDMS
>pass a variable number of variables?  If we can have a variable number if
>variables, we eliminate the "fixed" unit record (card) mentality of disk
>storage.

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