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Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004

"This column is dedicated to those who believe that programming and computation is an intellectually significant and challenging career that demands a wide spectrum education combined with practice."

Computational Diversity, Practice and a Passion for Applications

By Dave Thomas (of OTI/Bedarra fame), whose publications are invariably interesting. Perfect rainy sunday reading.

"Indeed, we are fortunate that disks are so slow and CPUs are so fast. However, memory resident relational data is becoming commonplace with 64 bit machines and I doubt the overhead will be tolerable in the long term."

The Impedance Imperative

2004-10-31-compDiv

motz 7670 days AGO
sí señor, dave thomas is a good one ;) one day he was in erfurt and i am convinced he is aka known as pragdave

chris 7670 days AGO
Look here for visual proof that Bedarra-Dave is not Prag-Dave ;-)

motz 7670 days AGO
[create LOL] that's getting somewhere. telefonica obscura as always - i am not allowed to enter this site. so i either have to wait until i have changed my what so ever or i ask someone who knows better, or you provide me with some other proof, or ...;) call me "no creo nada"

chris 7670 days AGO
Nocreonada Motz, more proof.

Dave Thomas Of Pragmatic Programmer, The Pragmatic Programmers

Dave Thomas Of Bedarra, Bedarra Research Labs

It sure may be confusing, as they're both active in the "agile camp".

motz 7670 days AGO
got the proof: you are right. there are more david's around ;)

David Ness 7667 days AGO
Lest there be any doubt, this is only the most famous of the
11 + who are listed in IMDB...

motz 7667 days AGO
nonono, no doubt anymore. i may quote a friend - without permission, though - pero me gusta:
"This is one of the most confusing questions in all of OO:

Dave Thomas: Wendy's founder, burgermaster, RIP
Dave Thomas: Berrada Dave, OTI Dave, Carelton U. Dave
Dave Thomas: Prag Dave, not the other Dave
Dave Thomas: Lead Guitar player for Per Ubu, a Cleveland Based rockband..."

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