Re: What databases have taught me

From: topmind <topmind_at_technologist.com>
Date: 12 Jul 2006 08:35:43 -0700
Message-ID: <1152718543.652059.240270_at_75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>


Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:

You are like Rush Limbough: you take a snippet out of context and play it over and over.

> >
> >
> > This is bull. The only thing I said that about is why change patterns
> > happen a certain way in biz apps.
>
> May I quote ?
> """
> (-T-) I just want something that helps *my* domain.

Why is this a sin? I don't find that solutions from systems software work for custom biz apps.

>
>
> (BD) Why do you think the same technical problem would require a
> different technical solution according to the domain ?

Perhaps there is misunderstanding over what "same" refers to here. I interpreted it in a general sense, along the lines of "messy code". On the surface it might be the same.

>
>
> (-T-) Are you asking why OO techniques that apply for one domain don't
> apply for another? That is a very good question. I don't know why, it
> just does.
> """"
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.object/msg/159be5dce37fe314
>

> >>or "irrelevant to it's own 'niche'" (which is
> >>defined as "custom biz apps", whatever this may mean).
> >
> >
> > So? X being good at domain Y does not automatically mean it will be
> > good in domain Z.
>
> Why do you think the same technical problem would require a
> different technical solution according to the domain ?

I don't think it is really the "same". See above.

>
> Don't bother answering, you already did : "I don't know why, it just does."
>
> >
> >>FWIW, he admitted
> >>believing RM was "a brass-bullet" (while not believing in silver-bullet...)
> >
> >
> > Is this a sin?
>
> How about unicorns ?

Huh? Unicorns are a sin? I suppose having "romance" with them might be.  But I don't want details about your personal life, thank you. Just be careful about the pointy parts.

>
> --
> bruno desthuilliers

-T- Received on Wed Jul 12 2006 - 17:35:43 CEST

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