Re: An object-oriented network DBMS from relational DBMS point of view
From: paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:37:44 GMT
Message-ID: <Y_EKh.25444$zU1.18890_at_pd7urf1no>
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:37:44 GMT
Message-ID: <Y_EKh.25444$zU1.18890_at_pd7urf1no>
Walt wrote:
> "paul c" <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac> wrote in message
> news:4LlKh.23958$zU1.8560_at_pd7urf1no...
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>>Bernard Peek wrote: >> >>>On 2007-03-15, Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Bernard Peek wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>On 2007-03-14, Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>The word "object" is essentially meaningless. It has no clear
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>>>>>>and gets used to mean a variety of things. Those who use it frequently >>>>>>do so to impede communication. >>>>> >>>>>The word, in the context of object-oriented languages and databases,
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>>>>>to me to have precisely two meanings. One is the set of identifiable
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>>>>>and the other is the set of computer-based models of identifiable
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>>>>Huh? >>> >>> >>>What part of that are you having a problem with? >>> >>> >>> >>>>>It does impede communication, but it's not for want of trying. I think
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>>>>>universality of the concept that may be at the heart of the problem. >>>> >>>>Um, are you saying that if it means everything and anything then it >>>>means nothing? >>> >>> >>>Nope. But I've seen some smart people new to UNIX who can't seem to get
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>>>head around the idea the everything is a file. >>> >>> >>> >> >>I think that if they were actually smart, they must have been having an >>off-day. For smart, check the previous two posts on this group, from >>JOG and Walt. Very smart, even though they are unavoidably detained by >>the modern penchant for wondering if old definitions of words such as >>"surrogate" are somehow extinct. >>
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p Received on Fri Mar 16 2007 - 23:37:44 CET