Re: An object-oriented network DBMS from relational DBMS point of view
From: paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:29:36 GMT
Message-ID: <k9ELh.38178$DN.8714_at_pd7urf2no>
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> Actually, "instance" and "instantiate" come from logic, and in logic,
> instances are values. However, OO abuses these words as badly as it
> abuses so many others.
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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:29:36 GMT
Message-ID: <k9ELh.38178$DN.8714_at_pd7urf2no>
Bob Badour wrote:
> Alfredo Novoa wrote:
>> ... >> "To instantiate" means to give an example, and it is not an apt for >> mathematics term.
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> Actually, "instance" and "instantiate" come from logic, and in logic,
> instances are values. However, OO abuses these words as badly as it
> abuses so many others.
> ...
Just a side comment - I remember reading one of the earlier Java specs, around 1996 or so and couldn't counter the impression, as much as I wanted to, that the spec was written after the first implementation. I wonder what the spec for "Oak" looked like.
Not to disparage Jave, there's much behind it, if not in it, that I like but I'm trying to limit myself to three or four sentences these days.
p Received on Mon Mar 19 2007 - 23:29:36 CET