Re: The wisdom of the object mentors (Was: Searching OO Associations with RDBMS Persistence Models)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 17:55:17 +0300
Message-ID: <e5kaj1$d8h$1_at_nntp.aioe.org>
"David Cressey" <dcressey_at_verizon.net> wrote in message news:0wVeg.6314$o%3.5220_at_trndny07...
> The heart of the system is the data.
The blood is the data.
> For 20 years, I believed that the heart of the system was the application
> code. I wrote application code. That's why I believed it. But I've seen
> enough to convince me otherwise in the last 17 years.
> Not that I didn't say: "the database". What if we change database
vendors?
> Been there, done that.
> What if we rewrite almost all the application code? Been there, done
that.
What if you delete all the application code ?
> What if we destroy all the data up to this point? Time to update your
> resume, everybody!
What if you update the data ? Received on Wed May 31 2006 - 16:55:17 CEST