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

From: Robert Martin <unclebob_at_objectmentor.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 01:10:30 -0500
Message-ID: <2006060201103040194-unclebob_at_objectmentorcom>


On 2006-05-31 11:50:20 -0500, "topmind" <topmind_at_technologist.com> said:

> I don't see how the issue of proprietary SQL is any different than a
> proprietary app language.

It's not. I want the application to be isolated from the DB; and I want the DB isolated from the application. I wan't the application programmers to be able to change from Oracle to MySQL to Flat files. I want the DB to have the freedom to support Java, C#, C++ or Python.

Note the symmetry.

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