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Granted. I'll throw out the cloud platform, but keep the others.

1) There is no substitute for the relational model. Clearly it is a paradigm for building mathematical objects.

2) I didn't strongly advocate my choice of F#. Strongly-typed, functional first, ML syntax language is the sweet spot today. In theory this predicts faster development and fewer bugs. All software assemblies are mathematical objects, those built with strongly-typed, functional languages tend to be more humanly comprehendible.

3) No estimates allows practitioners to make useful projections of the course of a project. (Of the 4, this one has the weakest claim to belong to theory, yet I will argue useful projections are a kind of prediction.)

4) TLA+, or something like it, separates spec from implementation detail and makes "predictions" (at arbitrary level of granularity) of what a completed software component will do.




Lots of systems software has no place for any kind of RDBMS, I'm not really sure I understand what you mean by "no substitute".


Yep. Didn't think through writing that, did I?




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