Re: The IDS, the EDS and the DBMS
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 06:35:12 GMT
Message-ID: <A0x0d.24029$D%.20611_at_attbi_s51>
"Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net> wrote in message news:Sb2dnVO-b74pZtzcRVn-tQ_at_comcast.com...
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> "erk" <eric.kaun_at_pnc.com> wrote in message
> news:2dd98723e63cfde7201c50f8a338549a_at_localhost.talkaboutdatabases.com...
> > The trouble that I see is that one ends up adding more and more "O-O" code
> > which replicates capabilities already provided by the DBMS query facility.
> > Some of that deals with the database per se (e.g. reading and writing
> > data), and some of it deals with data internal to the application (e.g.
> > finding "objects" that meet certain criteria).
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> It sound like you're recapitulating Spight's Law.
Indeed he is.
> Off topic:
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> I'm so envious of Spight having a law with his name that I'm forced to
> invent the Laconic Law:
> "If you think you're not ignorant, then you are."
Spight's Law was born in part out of my envy of Greenspun having a law with his name. The specific phrasing of Spight's Law is in homage to Greenspun's.
Marshall Received on Sat Sep 11 2004 - 08:35:12 CEST