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

On 2006-07-04 01:24:41 -0500, "topmind" <topmind_at_technologist.com> said:

> But they are mostly interchangable. Which-is-done-where is a fairly
> arbitrary call. In an extreme case, code is just *data* to an
> interpreter. And, table-centric solutions actually implement
> domain-specific interpreter(s) more or less, so the analogy is not that
> far off.

I don't disagree with that. However, I'll refer you back to a recent post by Fredrick who re-invented dynamic dispatch within a database language so that he could appropriately decouple the payroll application. The point is that if you treat the data as instructions, then you will eventually come of with the notion of pointers or references to those instructions. From there it's a short hop to dynamic polymorphism, which leads right back to objects.

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