Re: Mixing OO and DB

On Feb 14, 5:32 pm, mAsterdam <mAster..._at_vrijdag.org> wrote:
> Marshall wrote:
> > Tegiri Nenashi wrote:
> >> The Galois duality between attributes and objects
>
> > Oh, shit. What does that mean? I have this intuition that
> > you've just said something that it's important that I learn about.
>
> > Marshall
>
> > PS. And I'm still meaning to follow up on the Galois connection
> > between syntax and semantics... need more Tarski. Mumble
> > mumble. Have to finish that axiomatic set theory book, then
> > need to read about model theory. Argh.
>
> Yes, V^H Nenashi, please elaborate for us mere mortals :-)

I thought Marshall was joking. Anyway, don't take my word for it, Galois connections are mentioned in about every FCA paper.

Here is FCA home page
http://www.upriss.org.uk/fca/fca.html
and introductory article
http://www.upriss.org.uk/papers/arist.pdf There is even free software to play with, e.g ConceptExplorer! Received on Fri Feb 15 2008 - 03:19:36 CET