Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frank Swarbrick Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: the registry Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:42:52 -0600 Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net pJgbHnVdv1Ah20IXGnWH7g3gQ3ws5T3wwcBiWhLlzHVTiZ4Dkt+db/qoOUeS+2a1ti Cancel-Lock: sha1:9HvQd5lc4XJU2IWVMvQLLuO3bLc= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120306 Thunderbird/3.1.20 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:1900 On 7/5/12 9:58 AM, BGB wrote: > in my run through college, about the closest the classes ever got to > talking about hierarchical databases was to briefly condemn older > database systems, and then extoll the virtues of the relational database > model as the "one true solution to everything". > > meanwhile, I personally use a hierarchical database system in my projects. What database is that? We use the mainframe hierarchical database IMS at my shop, and I've always wondered why there don't seem to be any others. Or more likely, why I can't locate them.