[buug] E.F. Codd passed away

[Ian Zimmerman]

Claude> Just read that E.F. Codd, inventor of the relational database
Claude> model, passed away last Friday.

Nick> Great!  Now maybe we can move on to something not mired in 1970s
Nick> IBMisms.

The relational model is great, it's SQL that stinks.

-- 
"This is the patent age of new inventions
For killing bodies, and for saving souls,
All propagated with the best intentions." 
George Gordon, lord Byron