Re: Date's First Great Blunder
From: Anthony W. Youngman <wol_at_thewolery.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:29:31 +0100
Message-ID: <eV3gOEFrCvfAFwxo_at_thewolery.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:29:31 +0100
Message-ID: <eV3gOEFrCvfAFwxo_at_thewolery.demon.co.uk>
In message <407d5b68.12958493_at_news.wanadoo.es>, Alfredo Novoa
<alfredo_at_ncs.es> writes
>On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 09:48:06 -0500, "Dawn M. Wolthuis"
><dwolt_at_tincat-group.com> wrote:
>
>>> The vast majority of the OO coders reject the evident when it is
>>> against the dogma.
>>
>>OO, like relational database theory, does have religious followers
>
>I disagree. Relational database theory is a branch of maths and OO is
>a set of fuzzy and contradictory guidelines that lacks any consensus.
>It is clear that the second is a lot more religious followers prone.
What's that quote?
Newtonian Mechanics is mathematics. It's consistent. Unfortunately, it doesn't tally with reality :-(
Cheers,
Wol
-- Anthony W. Youngman - wol at thewolery dot demon dot co dot uk HEX wondered how much he should tell the Wizards. He felt it would not be a good idea to burden them with too much input. Hex always thought of his reports as Lies-to-People. The Science of Discworld : (c) Terry Pratchett 1999Received on Thu Apr 15 2004 - 22:29:31 CEST