Re: Object-relational impedence
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:29:58 -0300
Message-ID: <47de644a$0$4055$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>
frebe wrote:
> On 17 Mar, 03:55, Bob Badour <bbad..._at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>>topmind wrote:
>>
>>>Robert Martin wrote:
>>
>>>>On 2008-03-14 00:17:40 -0500, frebe <freb..._at_gmail.com> said:
>>
>>>>>On 13 Mar, 18:40, Robert Martin <uncle..._at_objectmentor.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>>>The real point of that remark was that the user of a tool is at a
>>>>>>higher level of abstraction than the tool itself. �SQL is a tool. �ORMs
>>>>>>are tools that use SQL to get their job done, just like compilers use
>>>>>>assembly to get their job done. �In that sense ORMs live at a higher
>>>>>>level of abstraction than SQL.
>>
>>>>>Lets have an example: There are many "compiler" products translating
>>>>
>>>>>from a high-level language like ADA to a low-level language like C,
>>>>
>>>>>instead of translating to machine code directly. What if someone wrote
>>>>>a "compiler" translating C source code to ADA source code, would that
>>>>>make C more high level than ADA? Hardly? The existance of a product
>>>>>translating from language A to language B doesn't say anything about
>>>>>the levels of A and B.
>>
>>>>That's a good point. The fact that you can write a translator from
>>>>A->B does not mean A is higher level than B. On the other hand, when A
>>>>*truly is* higher level than B, there is a lot of leverage to be gained
>>>>by using A instead of B. That kind of leverage is cost effective and
>>>>attracts users. More and more people start using A as opposed to B. B
>>>>falls into less and less use. In the end, while everyone else is off
>>>>gaining the leverage of A, B is defended by a group of die-hards who
>>>>demand that all this A nonsense is foolish, and stupid, and who bemoan
>>>>the fact that nobody truly understands the purity of essense of B.
>>
>>Martin is a fucking retard.
>
> Yes, I know. But he has admitted that he is doing some progress
> ("databases are not longer a bucket of bits"). It is really amazing to
> see how he continue to make is claims when every argument he pops up,
> is quickly torn into pices.
>
> //frebe
Don't be taken in by his rhetoric. He hasn't learned a damned thing. Received on Mon Mar 17 2008 - 13:29:58 CET