Re: Mixing OO and DB
From: David BL <davidbl_at_iinet.net.au>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:05:47 -0800 (PST)
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Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:05:47 -0800 (PST)
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On Feb 11, 3:29 am, JOG <j..._at_cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Feb 10, 5:45 pm, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail..._at_dmitry-kazakov.de>
> wrote:
> > [What is data, in your opinion?
>
> Data. Lots of datum - from latin, meaning statement of fact. Predicate
> and value in FOL. A value without description is of course just
> noise.
Latin datum is past participle of dare, "to give". What make you say data is necessarily a set of propositions? Are you suggesting a value is meaningless without a proposition? Why can't a datum just be a value? Wouldn't you say a recorded image is data? Received on Mon Feb 11 2008 - 03:05:47 CET