Re: Mixing OO and DB
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 06:02:26 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <5783ccdf-0a71-491b-aafe-16befcecad12_at_n58g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>
On Feb 15, 5:27 pm, Bob Badour <bbad..._at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> JOG wrote:
> > On Feb 14, 2:04 pm, Bob Badour <bbad..._at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >> [snip]
> >>If it is represented suitably for machine processing, it is data.
>
> > So before computers there was no data? Really?
>
> Of course there was. Computers are not the only machines.
Nope, the "machine processing" definition just doesn't cut it imo.
>
> >>It has
> >>value to the recipient as data because it evokes some emotion or image
> >>and because a machine can store it, transmit it, reformat it etc. The
> >>poem is also a fact. The poem doesn't convey a fact. It is one. Poem P
> >>says Blah.
>
> >>[misguided argument snipped]
Received on Sat Feb 16 2008 - 15:02:26 CET