I´m sory - somehow a line was deleted from my posting, so I fix it here:
>
> Seems that there is some psychological problem about it. OO
> Programmers feel good if they have all their data in a single "object", no
> matter how complex that objects is and of how many sub-objects it is
composed of. To them, a row in a relational table is
> a kind of "object", so they feel uncomfortable if data is spread over
> several rows. Joining these rows together appears a clumsy operation to
> them, though it's logically a simple operation and also not necessarily
> a slow one. (Though it may sometimes be slow in practice)
--
Rene´ Hartmann
Received on Tue Aug 17 2004 - 15:01:10 CDT
