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From: "alfredono@gmail.com" <alfredono@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The wisdom of the object mentors (Was: Searching OO Associations with RDBMS Persistence Models)
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Tony wrote,

>Considering the use of so many button-pushingly ludicrous statements
>such as "a DBMS is a bucket of bits" and "swapped out for another at a
>whim", do you not think perhaps Mr Martin was teasing (or goading) you?

Tony, I would be delighted in that case, but I am afraid he was talking
seriously :(

I have seen many coders trying to put such ideas at practice in a very
literal way. I had to spend a considerable amount of time to stop these
ideas at my own job. The main argument of my opponents was: "everybody
does that".


Regards
  Alfredo