Re: What databases have taught me

From: Christian Brunschen <cb_at_festis.df.lth.se>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:14:19 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <e7hp3r$3bf$1@news.lth.se>

In article <2006062317030938165-unclebob_at_objectmentorcom>, Robert Martin <unclebob_at_objectmentor.com> wrote:
>OO started in the NCC, during a study of Norwegian shipping. It went
>through adolesence at Xerox Parc in a study of what the computers of
>the future might be like. It had a separate, and very different,
>adolesence in the telecom industry because of Bjarne Stroustrup. The
>two adolescent strains have been trying to merge; but the C++ strain
>has been dominating recently. However, the Smalltalk strain is gaining
>ground in the guise of Ruby.

.. and has in fact been quietly going strong in the shape of Objectve-C as well.

// Christian Brunschen Received on Fri Jun 23 2006 - 17:14:19 CDT