Re: OO versus RDB

mAsterdam wrote:
> H. S. Lahman wrote:
>
>> Responding to mAsterdam...
>>
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>
> That is, persistence is something outside the
> realm where objects behave. No behaviour, no objects.
> In this definition there is persistent data, there
> are no persistent objects.

<anecdot>
FWIW, note that it was very clear for Smalltalk's creators that Smalltalk was not a language, but a whole system including language, GUI, and transparent object persistance. A world in itself... </anecdot>

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>>
>> The point is that data management and problem solving are quite
>> different concerns and activities.

Well, it surely solves the problem of data management <g>

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