Re: Mixing OO and DB

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.

So when Galileo was looking through a telescope recording his observations on paper, what machine was that data for? Or when biologists were describing dodo's in their log books, again, what machine was that data for?

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