[eternalban]

Finally, Chris Date's name is mentioned in this thread. It was curious that the Darwen's pdf mentions him in asides. Did they have a falling out?

https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/99350/did-date-and-da...

[emmelaich]

He is listed in the acknowledgements ...

> ... Chris Date saw early drafts and suggested several improvements.

[eternalban]

Ah. Thanks, didn't see that.

[pasc1878]

Also mentioned in the paper as producing a corresponding paper at the same time.

[bob1029]

Funny coincidence. I just picked up Database in Depth from AbeBooks a week ago... ChatGPT brought his book up in a fever dream QA session regarding database normalization and I figured I'd give it a look.