Re: Mixing OO and DB
From: JOG <jog_at_cs.nott.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:19:21 -0800 (PST)
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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:19:21 -0800 (PST)
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On Feb 12, 5:27 pm, Bob Badour <bbad..._at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> [snip]
> [in] the ISO/IEC 2382 Standard Vocabularies. Data is
> information suitably encoded for machine processing.
While I obviously see the need for standardized vocabularies, I just hate this particular ISO definition. Long before the ISO existed and before computers were even a twinkle in babbages eye, scientist were avidly collecting "data". Reams and Reams of it in fact. To say data is only information suitable for machine processing is simply crap, surely?
Its a good job I'm pretty lazy, or I'd have a good mind to tell the ISO what I thought via the sharp end of a strongly worded facebook wall-post. Received on Wed Feb 13 2008 - 04:19:21 CET