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by eternalban 1192 days ago
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...

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He is listed in the acknowledgements ...

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

Ah. Thanks, didn't see that.
Also mentioned in the paper as producing a corresponding paper at the same time.
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.