Re: Object-relational impedence

On Mar 3, 6:47 pm, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail..._at_dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:36:50 GMT, David Cressey wrote:
> > "Roy Hann" <specia..._at_processed.almost.meat> wrote in message
> >news:zpSdnSj5fPTYqVHanZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d_at_pipex.net...
> >> I completely, 100% agree with that. Code is evil.
>
> > It appears, from reading c.o., that OO people regard data structures as
> > evil.
>
> Right, the structure of data would be too low-level to be able to capture
> behavior. As in mathematics, in OO the internal structure of objects is
> irrelevant and when considered, then only as an implementation detail to be
> abstracted away. OO deals with the structures of sets of objects exposing
> same behavior and relations between such sets.
>
> > It sounds like Stalinists versus Trotskyites to me!
>
> Huh, both regarded themselves as true Leninists. No, by this analogy c.d.t.
> wanted to impose Leninism on us, others who consider Leninism just a silly
> amateur philosophy, though very wicked when tried in practice. You know the
> examples, the Gulag, SQL... (:-))

If you'd please, I was hoping for reasonable discussion, not flamebait.

>
> --
> Regards,
> Dmitry A. Kazakovhttp://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
Received on Mon Mar 03 2008 - 20:16:34 CET