Re: TRM - Morbidity has set in, or not?

Bob Badour wrote:
> If one wants to use
> a different syntax, it would make much more sense to use a translator.
> However, none of the examples of alternate syntaxes she gives could
> possibly offer any useful benefit over predicate logic.

For data representation, I agree completely. But I think of UIs and reports as forms of data extracts: they're restricted and (typically, but not always) tree-structured "views" of a subset of a database. The power of relational for shared databases is in part its ability to support arbitrary extracts of the data in an egalitarian fashion - no application bias. Any given UI or report includes a set of (typically key-related) restrictions and projections across different relations. It appears to me (and I could be wrong, as this is only a pet hypothesis at this point) that expression languages to derive these would be tree-structured, or at least would be different than a relational algebra or calculus.

> Even if one goes the extra mile and tries to make sense of the gibberish
> by substituting "computational model" or "model of concurrency", the
> object oriented folks do not have a consensus on either so using the
> definite article and suggesting that provides a unique starting place is
> lunacy.

In fairness, it wasn't Dawn who introduced the term. I thought maybe it had a meaning, but suspect it doesn't. Agreed that the O-O folks don't have a consensus on this, nor is it critical in the discussion of data.

• Eric