Re: OO versus RDB

H. S. Lahman wrote:
> Why do you keep bringing up OO?

Have you stopped beating your wife?

http://www.logicalfallacies.info/complexquestions.html

>>> The benefits are the same benefits one  gets from any software 
>>> modularization: simplifying subject matters; containment, reuse, and 
>>> -- most relevant for this thread -- context-independence.
>>
>> , in casu database independence, at the cost of
>> 1. if you have dbms: a lesser facade with roll-your-own abstractions.
>> 2. if you haven't: a roll-your-own dbms,
>> and in both cases modules still fully dependent on the relevant
>> part of the conceptual schema (whether it is coded or not, the latter 
>> being the toughest spot to be in).
>>
>> Not really a hard decision.

I am not interested in your cost-calculating paradigm.

> OK, that's it for this thread. Making an incomprehensible statement and
> then asserting that you won't deign to explain what you really meant is
> not a good basis for rational discussion. Ta-ta.

Thanks for making clear how bad the idea is to mask a good abstraction layer with a weaker one.

-- 
"The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person doing it."
Chinese Proverb.