On 17/09/21 04:26, Michael Nolan wrote:
> In the same 1971 seminar where we studied Algol-68, we had to read and
> write a short paper on the 1970 Codd paper on relational theory,
> which had only been out for about a year. The professor running the
> seminar noted that Codd proved that the relational model worked, but
> didn't guarantee that it worked efficiently enough to be implementable
> without immense computer resources, which of course became available.
> --
> Mike Nolan
Developing an effective optimizer might have helped ...
Cheers,
Gavin