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From: Tegiri Nenashi <TegiriNenashi@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.databases.theory
Subject: Re: Mixing OO and DB
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:02:36 -0800 (PST)
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On Feb 28, 1:29 pm, Patrick May <p...@spe.com> wrote:
> frebe <freb...@gmail.com> writes:
> >> We still have it, and we still use it.  But we also hide it from
> >> the bulk of the application.
>
> > What is the benefit with hiding SQL from the bulk of the
> > application?
>
>      For one thing, it decouples the application code and the database
> schema.  For another, as noted by Mr. Martin, it allows the creation
> of a domain specific language that better reflects the concepts in the
> problem and solution domains.

Sure Mr. Martin is working on a "domain specific language" that would
put SQL to shame?