Re: The wisdom of the object mentors (Was: Searching OO Associations with RDBMS Persistence Models)
Date: 21 Jun 2006 12:35:01 -0700
Message-ID: <1150918501.562390.285380_at_i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>
Robert Martin wrote:
> On 2006-06-09 04:11:32 -0400, mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> said:
>
> > "Applications should not strongly
> > depend on a navigational format unless that
> > format IS the most convenient form for them.":
> > a matter of convenience for some applications
> > at the cost of convenience for other applications.
>
> And so each application programmer needs to decide what form the data
> is most convient in, and convert from the canonical DB form to that
> convenient form.
However, I understand that some really like navigational viewpoints and claim to work better under them. It is hard to make everybody happy. It would be interesting to find the psychological reasons behind the differences in preference.
>
> --
> Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) | email: unclebob_at_objectmentor.com
-T- Received on Wed Jun 21 2006 - 21:35:01 CEST