Re: Object Orientation question

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:23:25 -0600, "D" <asd_at_asdf.com> wrote:

>Hi Koert,
>
>Actually, no, your answer doesn't help at all but it made for entertaining
>reading and had a couple of good points. :)
>
>True, C++ compilers run through a bunch of "C" files. (I can see it on a
>step through) And I agree that there are 'probably' not any OO Assemblers.
>(that would ultimately be pointless, I think.) Where does that leave us? I
>should probably direct the question to a C++ group since it is a chicken/egg
>sort of question.

I guess it just means that all object-oriented systems are, at some level, created from a procedural one. There might be several levels of middleware (development environment written in a 4GL that was written in C++ that uses C that compiles to assembler). But at some point, there is a stage that's procedural. (Unless somewhere there is a computer with an object-oriented instruction set?)

So, it's kind of a moot point how Oracle could do it for the database. Everybody who does anything O-O is really using procedural stuff somewhere under the covers.

BTW, (responding to a later followup), in Oracle9i there is inheritance and various other O-O stuff that was not there before.

John Received on Thu Nov 29 2001 - 14:43:29 CST