Re: OO and relation "impedance mismatch"

From: Fredrik Bertilsson <fredrik_bertilsson_at_passagen.se>
Date: 3 Oct 2004 07:36:43 -0700
Message-ID: <31f7e57d.0410030636.52e3a21f_at_posting.google.com>


> OO languages don't support the fundamental relational structure: the
> relation. It is very evident that a language that does not support
> relations is not very well suited to work with relational databases.

But non-OO languages support relations, or?? Please give an example. Wouldn't it be possible to model a relation as a class? Overloaded operators could be used for expressing relational calculus. I think that OO languages is the most suited for this job.

Fredrik,
http://butler.sourceforge.net Received on Sun Oct 03 2004 - 16:36:43 CEST

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