Re: Mixing OO and DB

Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> writes:
>Already done. See the ISO/IEC 2382 Standard Vocabularies.
>Data is information suitably encoded for machine processing.

  Parties are free to choose or not to choose to include the ISO   vocabulary into their contracts. For research in computer   science, using ISO vocabularies might not always be appropriate.

  Alan Kay coined the term »objec-oriented programming«,   and he wanted »get rid of data« in 1967:

      »It was probably in 1967 when someone asked me what I was
      doing, and I said: "It's object-oriented programming".

      The original conception of it had the following parts. [...]

        - I wanted to get rid of data.«

http://www.purl.org/stefan_ram/pub/doc_kay_oop_en

  The ISO vocabulary might not be what he had in mind.

  »Information suitably encoded for machine processing«   might include too many things (like objects and programs). Received on Tue Feb 12 2008 - 18:44:59 CET