Re: Mixing OO and DB
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:00:47 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <2d732160-4c9f-459e-aa08-ce9bbd3ce038_at_u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com>
On Feb 26, 3:16 pm, Tegiri Nenashi <TegiriNena..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 26, 3:09 pm, Marshall <marshall.spi..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Feb 26, 1:28 pm, topmind <topm..._at_technologist.com> wrote:
>
> > > A "simple" API is going to replace a sophisticated and powerful query
> > > language? I don't think so.
>
> > I'm going to write a quick API (not too many classes with not too
> > many methods each) that will enable me to swap out C++ for LISP.
>
> Object independence is considered a good idea.
I don't just want *object* independence. If all I could do with my API was swap out one OO programming language for another, that would be insufficient. The choice of computational model is a detail, the choice of which should be deferred as long as possible; a dependency which software should be fully insulated from.
Marshall Received on Wed Feb 27 2008 - 02:00:47 CET