> In another thread "navigation" is again mentioned as undesirable. It
> often sounds as if folks are saying that there is data-based software
> written without using any navigation; that there truly is an option;
> that we can choose an approach with navigation or one without.
The navigational fly paper is stuck by RM proponents on non-RM
methodologies to NULLify them. It has nothing to do with the
abstraction level of a methodolgy's interface. If a methodology smells
like XML, MV, trees, binary joins, pointers, graphs, networks, it is
patted on all sides with navigational fly paper to completely
immobilize it. Also if a methodology's interface (ie dbd) doesn't
expose its NULLs, IDs and joins (like RM's SQL), it must surely be
using navigational voodoo :)
Received on Wed Feb 14 2007 - 13:23:33 CST
