Re: Is it possible to use a database though any high-level API?

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 18:51:46 -0300
Message-ID: <463907c2$0$4052$9a566e8b@news.aliant.net>

David Cressey wrote:

> "Marshall" <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1178135368.570362.183080_at_q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>

>>On May 2, 12:06 pm, Volker Hetzer <firstname.lastn..._at_ieee.org> wrote:
>>
>>>The OO databases I had seen only had programming
>>>language interfaces like for C++ or Java. No query language, no console

>
> or
>

>>>other ad-hoc query tool.
>>
>>WHAT were they thinking?!

>
> They were thinking like programmers. Those of us who see the value in
> data-centric data management always have to be on the lookout for "the
> revenge of the nerds".
>
> This is only one case among hundreds like it. There is no sign of universal
> enlightenment in the forseeable future.

Germline genetic engineering is on the horizon. We have reason to hope. Received on Wed May 02 2007 - 16:51:46 CDT