Re: The wisdom of the object mentors (Was: Searching OO Associations with RDBMS Persistence Models)
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 21:44:36 GMT
Message-ID: <813fg.15226$A26.355827_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
Andrew McDonagh wrote:
> Marshall wrote:
>
>> Andrew McDonagh wrote:
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>>>> The heart of the system is the data.
>>>
>>> Wrong - the heart of the system is information, not data.
>>
>>
>> I see. You have nothing useful to contribute, so you split
>> hairs over some terminological difference you imagine.
>>
>>
>> Marshall
>>
>
> no - Data is (at least I hope) wildly known as being raw, Information is
> that Data interpreted in a meaningful way.
>
> Do you need an example?
Andrew, that definition is a fad among marketers and incompetent
managers. Data is the subset of information represented suitably for
machine processing, which is a standard definition you can find from
ISO. It is probably the single most fundamental and important definition
in computing science.
Your ignorance of it and your sheeplike acceptance of nonsense show how
immature and regressive our field is right now. I suggest you try to
spend less time reading fashion magazines and more time learning the