Re: Object Orientation question

Hi Marc,

Good points. If your point is that there is no inheritance, polymorphism and the like with objects that are instantiated in Oracle, then I guess Oracle is more Object based than object oriented and that is OK.

Thanks for the help.

Don

"Marc Blum" <marc_at_marcblum.de> wrote in message news:3c0513cb.5822261_at_news.online.de...
> Hi Don,
>
> Oracle may be written in C, but that hasn't anything to do with what
> Oracle offers to you for the development of applications.
>
> When you declare an "Object" in PL/SQL, you won't ever know, how
> Oracle handles that "thing" inside the engine. Oracle may convert it
> to apples or even some hiroglyphes written on a piece of pergament,
> you won't ever see it, you never have to worry about it as long as it
> performs well and satisfies your requierements.
>
> This may be a little esoteric but I hope you got the idea.
>
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:16:54 -0600, "D" <asd_at_asdf.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi Group,
> >
> >As I understand it Oracle 8 or greater denormalizes tables to acheive
object
> >orientation. I also understand that most, if not all, of Oracle was
written
> >in C (presumably ANSI C). C is not an object oriented language. So how
could
> >a non-object oriented, procedural language create a system that is at
some
> >level, object oriented?
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Don
> >
> >
>
> regards
> Marc Blum
> mailto:marc_at_marcblum.de
> http://www.marcblum.de
Received on Thu Nov 29 2001 - 10:25:24 CST