Re: Navigation question

JOG wrote:

> Ok, lets fix this confusion once and for all Dawn. This one /cannot/
> go wrong. I have every faith that this coming analogy will clear
> things up. No siree. Cannot fail.
>
> * Ok, consider a Declarative programming language. Say lisp (or
> Haskell, etc):
> * Obviously noone would say such a language is procedural - it just
> declares... and thats it.
> * /However/ if one had a system was configured such that given some
> user input, a different lisp program was fired up... well would that
> mean that lisp was now procedural? Of course not.
> * Thats how clear the separation in layers is.
>
> Its clear the 'navigation' began before the lisp program started. Its
> the exact same pattern when we query databases declaratively -
> navigation just doesn't happen, never, not a sausage at the logical
> layer. In theory.

The only way to beat the troll is to ignore her. Received on Mon Feb 19 2007 - 22:29:11 CET