[jroseattle]

Way back in the day, I picked up a cheap ($5!!!) copy of Readings in Database Systems from Michael Stonebraker. I found it fascinating to read the original papers that proposed concepts, and then to see those concepts implemented and become the norm.

What I didn't expect was the amount of drama within the context of those papers. In Codd's original paper on relational theory in the 60s, he spends a chunk of time dedicated to talking about IBM as "the man". Hilarious.

[commandlinefan]

> concepts implemented and become the norm

I had a coworker some time in the late 90's who was reading the book "Design Patterns". We were working in Java at the time and he remarked how odd it seemed to see a book that was targeted at C++ programmers use terms like "interfaces" which were "Java concepts".