Re: In defence of the fat database

On Oct 6, 11:04 am, Nilone <rea..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 6, 5:39 pm, laurip <lauri.j.pietari..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On 6 Okt, 15:44, Nilone <rea..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Why am I not surprised that a class-based programming language is
> > > involved.
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> > What class-based programming language are you referring to?
>
> Quoting from the article you linked (which seems to have moved, btw):
>
> "But then at the dawn of the new millenium, something happened. And
> that something misteriously made the role of the DBMS inside a
> database application project diminish to insignificant. Of course I'm
> talking about Java and J2EE here now..."
>
> Java, of course, is a class-based object-oriented programming language.

I suppose you could say that "...a class-based programming language is involved." in much the same way you might say that Codd's papers involved a hierarchical data model. Received on Wed Oct 07 2009 - 05:50:01 CEST