Re: An object-oriented network DBMS from relational DBMS point of view

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:31:26 GMT, Bob Badour wrote:

> Device drivers are not programming -- they are plumbing. The hardware
> dictates everything.

Which is exactly what ANY programming is about = describing tasks to be carried out by a hardware (computational environment).

P.S. Pointers are not necessarily needed for programming device drivers. Hardware ports can be mapped to non-relocatable objects using representation clauses. Stateful synchronization objects like ports, queues, semaphores etc can be passed around by references without introducing second-class referential objects (and types of).

Pointers should be avoided, but they cannot be when represent a computational constraint. Almost always introducing pointers is dictated by non-functional requirements. Nevertheless, non-functional requirements could be more important than functional ones...

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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