[geeks] OED Wins! ;^)

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Wed Nov 20 22:59:58 CST 2002


On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 vance at neurotica.com wrote:

> What?  You prejudiced against heirarchical databases!?

I can't immediately visualize a schema for a hierarchical database for a
dictionary that would be any more useful than a fully-normalized tabular
database.

However, one of my toy projects is a bidirectional database using BDB.
If it ever gets past the "Hm. That would be cool" stage, I'll let you
know. :)

-- 
Jonathan Patschke
  "Albert Einstein nailed space-time, but the wild thing had him stumped.
   Al, baby, two and two make five-and-a-quarter; that's why people fall
   in love." -- Thomas Dolby, "That's Why People Fall in Love"



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