Re: (not entirely...) OT: OPINION... chicken entrails, runic stones, and crystal balls... WAS CoBOL moved to OO

From: Doug Scott (dwscott_at_ieee.org)
Date: 01/03/04 

Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 21:30:06 GMT

Pierra,

> Many modern databases that only "journal" the results of a transaction
> cannot back these transactions out of a completed transaction. It's a
> shame, but we have progressed to the past.

Yes, but that's what the Commit verb does - it ends the transaction.
There are some 4GLs which try to avoid the explicit Commit, but there are
usually ways around it. 

---
Doug
dwscott@ieee.org

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