Re: Mixing OO and DB
From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:11:58 +0100
Message-ID: <47b8a2f6$0$14360$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>
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>>>>> What is data, in your opinion?
>>>> Recorded facts.
...
>>>>> On my side: data are values semantically >>>>> bound to some entities from the problem space. ...
>>>> "semantically bound" suggests a formalism. ... >>> Actually it suggests absence of formalism. ...
>>> A formal system operates on data
>>> without any clue of the meaning of.
...
> Can we simplify this whole thing a little bit?
>
> There are three things you can do with data:
>
> 1. You can store data.
> 2. You can convey data.
> 3. You can transform data.
>
> Those three things add value to data in very different ways.
>
> Almost all useful manipulations of data involve sub-steps
> that do each of these three things to data.
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:11:58 +0100
Message-ID: <47b8a2f6$0$14360$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>
David Cressey wrote:
> mAsterdam wrote:
>> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: >>> mAsterdam wrote: >>>> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
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>>>>> What is data, in your opinion?
>>>> Recorded facts.
...
>>>>> On my side: data are values semantically >>>>> bound to some entities from the problem space. ...
>>>> "semantically bound" suggests a formalism. ... >>> Actually it suggests absence of formalism. ...
>>> A formal system operates on data
>>> without any clue of the meaning of.
...
> Can we simplify this whole thing a little bit?
>
> There are three things you can do with data:
>
> 1. You can store data.
> 2. You can convey data.
> 3. You can transform data.
>
> Those three things add value to data in very different ways.
>
> Almost all useful manipulations of data involve sub-steps
> that do each of these three things to data.
Did David's post go unnoticed? Warnocked? Is it without problems in both cdt and co?
Ping co! Received on Sun Feb 17 2008 - 22:11:58 CET