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

On Mar 18, 6:04 am, Bob Badour <bbad..._at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Drago Ganic wrote:
>
> > P.S.: I personally differentiate between code and data. To me data is like
> > mass in physics. It is static and has structure. I move it around, destroy
> > it etc.
>
> I suggest you find a way to check out the standard vocabularies. One can
> move code, and in fact "code motion" is an important concept. One can
> destroy it, create it etc. While code and data have very different
> meanings, the above nonsense is just nonsense.

Amplifying:

All code is data. An unparsed Fortran source file is data. Code compiled into Java bytecodes is data. An x86 object file, a PowerPC executable, an abstract syntax tree: all are data.

Marshall Received on Sun Mar 18 2007 - 18:04:12 CET