Re: object naming conventions

Like you, I agree with most of Fabian's writings. But I do know that there is a difference between theory and practice. How things work on the drawing board are not necessarily the way they work when you try to implement them.

Cheers,
Brian

Joel Garry wrote:
>
> "Noons" <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam> wrote in message news:<3f040e11$0$5430$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
> > "Brian Peasland" <oracle_dba_at_remove_spam.peasland.com> wrote in message
> > news:3F02D7B1.3B4261C9_at_remove_spam.peasland.com...
> >
> > > Yeah, worked with ADABAS. Not a big fan of it. There's a reason why
> > > heirarchical databases are no longer in fashion. And is anyone else
> > > bothered by this trend of XML databases that smack of the old
> > > heirarchical databases? Didn't we learn our lessons????
> >
> > That's what we get for letting IBM and their mainframes
> > survive this long. They'll do anything and push ANYTHING
> > to get back into the closed, proprietary hierarchical db
> > world. That's how they survive in the long run. XML is just
> > made in heaven for the mainframe mentality.
> >
> > Have a look in dbazine at Fabian's latest rant. He
> > knows *exactly* what's going on in this industry with
> > XML. It's just another layer of buzzword marketing crap.
>
> While I agree with most of his rant (certainly his opinion of SQL), I
> disagree with the implication (or did he say it explicitly?) that just
> because commercial products are used, logic is thrown out the window.
> He seems to ignore the fact that much "business logic" has resulted
> from the empirical growth of business in a non-relational manner, and
> is in fact difficult to express relationally. I find it very
> difficult to comprehend the idea of convincing people to discard
> thousands of calendar years of development in favor of a provably
> correct theory.
>
> >
> > But it will be promoted as the *silver bullet*. Until
> > some bank loses a billion$ for doing business in
> > unencrypted SOAP+XML. Then the fan will be turning...
>
> jg
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