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>
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.
- Alan Kay
- Jan Hidders