Hi David,

-=> On 26 Aug 96  21:15:04 David Noon said to Andrew Grillet <=-

 DN> What algorithm do you use? I've never noticed anything consistent
 DN> about soccer, and I've been watching it on and off for 35 years.

I use four dimensional differential calculus. (you know: curl, div, grad,
like in fluid flow.)
 
 AG> I am porting it from dBase to Oracle. 

 DN> If you port it to DB2/2 it would even be on-topic for this echo.

I did try. I put a lot of effort into DB2, but I just couldnt do it.
 
 DN> Well, I'm currently working as a sort-of DBA laying out DB2 tables at
 DN> the moment. No C/C++ required. ... :-) No COBOL required. ... :-))

I have that stuff well sussed. The real trick with this is

a) the user interface has to be extemely intuitive and quick. I have to
enter each day's results from teletext in the morning, and the family
all want other channels!

b) The actual computation chouls be farmed out to C routines and done in
floating point (sinking point for those of you with pentiums :-) instead
of in BCD by interpreted code.


 DN> You'll need to scoop the big one for that. Perhaps DB2/2 would be a
 DN> more economic option.
 
The problem with DB2 was I could find no simple waay to do pick lists, menus
etc. Actually no way at all - these things are not simple in dBase either.
I know I could use VAC++, but these days I expect a database system to be
all singing all dancing. (But not all bugs like dBase 5).

Hope some of this was on-topic.

Andrew


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