On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 08:05:34PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Maybe a structured Textfile is a flatfile, if > possibly readable as a tableview. But it is so > only in humans view and humans understanding.
Well, and English is a language used by humans to convey their understandings to other humans :-). You can do technical hairsplitting all you want, but the fact is that the term "flat file" has a long history of being used to refer to text files with minimal internal structure, no indexing, accessed with no or minimal locking, no transactions, etc. -- Nathaniel -- "...these, like all words, have single, decontextualized meanings: everyone knows what each of these words means, everyone knows what constitutes an instance of each of their referents. Language is fixed. Meaning is certain. Santa Claus comes down the chimney at midnight on December 24." -- The Language War, Robin Lakoff ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
