"It's a bit of an assumption that it doesn't exist?"

In the absence of any evidence that it does exist the default presumption should be that it does not.

"Q. There's no BNF available. A. I'll publish it, it's just not on the website yet. We just went public, there's lots of work to still. Good suggestion!"

You do the BNF first dummy. You really should have just used Lisp if you want to create a domain specific language.

It's in the other thread about Silicon Valley and Diversity issues.

You'd be a case in point.

I am neither a woman nor a minority. Your attempt at snide has failed due to your incoherent statement.

It's nonsense like this that is the direct result of lowering hiring standards in order to get a requisite quota of women and minorities employed where they should not be.

There are very, very, few blacks or mestizos that have the requisite minimum IQ (IMHO 130) to do effective IT work. Those slight few that do are quickly glommed on to by big corporations and immediately put on fast track executive management programs where schmoozing rather than hard work is the main requirement for success.

Informix was bought by IBM in 2001 and is still under active development. Latest release was 3 weeks ago.

He got caught twice. Lord knows how many goosed up quarterly reports went through un-noticed.

High volume ACID transactions and stored procedures.

The tried and true IBM sales strategy. Play golf with the client CEO & CFO. Get IT personnel fired if they don't get on board.

<blockquote> One does not become a billionaire by being a nice fair guy. </blockquote>

No you do it by criminally mis-stating your corporate earnings in order to goose up the quarterly numbers which rug-merchant Larry did twice!

<i>"In other words, try spending as much on actually understanding your data and how it needs to be organized as you do on the thing you plan to store that data in."</i>

Yes and entity-relationaship modeling and a fully normalized logical data model are the tools used to do it in a rigorous fashion.

Moronic. You better believe that transactional integrity is important. Care for an account from a bank whose systems didn't enforce it?

After dealing with Oracle for over thirty years I've learned that the answer to the question "how much does Oracle cost?" is "how much money do you have?"

For a list use LISP.