Re: Mixing OO and DB

From: Jan Hidders <hidders_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 09:17:54 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <9eb40430-d0e9-4571-a698-e0d091ca8320_at_v4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>


On 8 feb, 18:05, -CELKO- <jcelko..._at_earthlink.net> wrote:
> Many years ago, the ANSI X3H2 Committee had a meeting in Rapid City,
> SD where Bjarne Stroustrup gave a talk on C++ and OO programming
> (overhead slides, not Powerpoints!)
>
> We asked about putting OO into SQL3 (the internal name of the working
> draft Standard at that time).  He said that Bells Labs had tried four
> ways to do this and they were all failures.  Bells Labs was the
> smarter people on Earth at that time. He summary was that OO was good
> for programming and bad for data.

They asked Bjarne Stroustrup? Why??

  "I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind."

  • Alan Kay
    • Jan Hidders
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