Re: The wisdom of the object mentors (Was: Searching OO Associations with RDBMS Persistence Models)

From: <alfredono_at_gmail.com>
Date: 30 May 2006 07:19:30 -0700
Message-ID: <1148998770.837519.292330_at_j55g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>


Tony wrote,

>Considering the use of so many button-pushingly ludicrous statements
>such as "a DBMS is a bucket of bits" and "swapped out for another at a
>whim", do you not think perhaps Mr Martin was teasing (or goading) you?

Tony, I would be delighted in that case, but I am afraid he was talking seriously :(

I have seen many coders trying to put such ideas at practice in a very literal way. I had to spend a considerable amount of time to stop these ideas at my own job. The main argument of my opponents was: "everybody does that".

Regards
  Alfredo Received on Tue May 30 2006 - 16:19:30 CEST

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