Re: OO and relation "impedance mismatch"

From: Fredrik Bertilsson <fredrik_bertilsson_at_passagen.se>
Date: 2 Oct 2004 22:34:53 -0700
Message-ID: <31f7e57d.0410022134.3a9fb67e@posting.google.com>

jcelko212_at_earthlink.net (--CELKO--) wrote in message
> One of the questions was how we should put OO stuff into SQL. His
> answer was that Bells Labs, with all their talent, had tried four
> different approaches to this problem and come the conclusion that you
> should not do it. OO was great for programming but deadly for data.

Why can't you access a relational database in a OO programming language? It is obviously no problem to access a file or socket. Many OO purits prefer to use the file system as the persistence mechanism, instead of a relational database. But what is the fundamental difference?

Fredrik,
http://butler.sourceforge.net Received on Sun Oct 03 2004 - 00:34:53 CDT