To be fair, Mark [1] did make several good arguments for databases, which is more than I got from a certain professor I had at college, or from fellow cow-orkers at various jobs, or even the devloper of a database package I had to extract data from.
But it just bugs me that most of this crap is taken “on faith” with no real explanation behind it. Something like Unix weenies when they smugly say “Unix is obviously better than everything out. Here's a nickel kid, buy yourself a real computer.”
Gee, thanks. Why, exactly, is Unix better? Certainly it's not just because modems are soooooooooooooo easy [2] to install, right?
Better stop now before I start to sound whiny again.