It's one thing when Codd used words like "tuples" in 1970. It was new stuff and he was a theorist thinking things through. Now we know and the issue is to keep things efficient, both at runtime and *at development time*. This includes requiring as little code as possible and sticking to concepts like tables, rows and columns.


>Look who wrote the article...that should explain this.
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>>The article unnecesarily complicates a very intuitive thing. Why use buzzwords like lambda expressions and expression trees? Keep it simple.