Re: views on views on views

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:49:11 -0700
Message-ID: <bf46380903261549h4c5f8197j8d4b0dd07efac426_at_mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Lyndon Tiu <ltiu_at_alumni.sfu.ca> wrote:

> Jared Still wrote:
>
>> Personally, I like the part where dependency on Java is removed.
>>
>>
> Exactly, as I mentioned in a previous email of where your center of the
> universe is.
>
> If the database is the center of the universe for you, you'd also want your
> database to be NOT dependent on the application. So that tomorrow, you can
> switch to .Net or whatever else and run away with it.
>

Again, "center of the universe" has nothing to do with it.

My comment was a subtly (too subtle) humorous remark aimed at the trouble that Java causes in IT shops. It causes a lot of it. Mostly due to programming errors I believe.

This whole idea of 'transportability' is completely the wrong way to go about designing anything.

Use the features of the tools you are using.

The thought that anything other than a really small app can easily be made to run on another database or moving the app from Java to .Net or whatever, just create more work and sub-par applications.

Jared

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