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From: bandy@lll-lcc.UUcp (Andrew Scott Beals)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: writing large database programs (was: titles)
Message-ID: <164@lll-lcc.UUcp>
Date: Thu, 27-Feb-86 14:12:44 EST
Article-I.D.: lll-lcc.164
Posted: Thu Feb 27 14:12:44 1986
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Reply-To: bandy@lll-lcc.UUCP (Andrew Scott Beals)
Organization: Lab Comp Center, Lawrence Livermore Labs
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Keywords: fun
Summary: who would want to?

In article <9397@ritcv.UUCP> msl5864@ritcv.UUCP (Michael S. Leibow) writes:
>I find it highly improbable
>that an average high school teacher or random hacker would be able to write
>programs such as airplane flight reservation systems, or pharmaceutical
>programs manage databases with thousands of patients, products, interactions,
>contraindications, doctors, and billing etc. etc..  

Who the hell would want to? Can you say "grunge work"? The driving
force behind "random hackers" is to have *fun*. What amusement value
is there in yet another silly database?

>I do think that a person
>with a computer science degree and little training could write such programs
>without to much difficulty.

Too bad they can't use the language that they were born with. One
would hope that someone with a CS degree and *no* training could do
something that simple.
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andy beals
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