Re: Decline of Science: Computer Science and Databases

Carl,
>
> Your approach may work in phone-book applications and for
> theoretical models that "mathematical purists" construct for
> university textbooks or for "manifestos". In practice it would
> cause tremendous unnecessary implementation and maintenance
> work to store and query complex class hierarchies.

Chances are that when you

• book a hotel
• reserve a flight
• check your bank account
• buy a book from Amazon
• make an insurance claim
• rent a car
• make a trade
• (etc etc)

there is a relational database somewhere giving out and saving data.

These are very complex applications, hardly just some text book examples.

Now it _could_ be that these same applications could be made using a pure OO-technology. But to claim that RM-technology is not suitable for these tasks - well hmmm...

regards,
Lauri Pietarinen Received on Mon Nov 11 2002 - 03:54:21 CST