Re: Mixing OO and DB
From: Robert Martin <unclebob_at_objectmentor.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 20:08:19 -0600
Message-ID: <2008030820081964440-unclebob_at_objectmentorcom>
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> If your car has no microwave how can it be a vehicle?
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 20:08:19 -0600
Message-ID: <2008030820081964440-unclebob_at_objectmentorcom>
On 2008-03-06 02:34:20 -0600, Marshall <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com> said:
> On Mar 6, 12:06 am, Robert Martin <uncle..._at_objectmentor.com> wrote:
>> On 2008-03-05 08:33:36 -0600, "David Cressey" <cresse..._at_verizon.net> said: >> >>> All this leads me to claim that data is more fundamental than behavior. Not >>> more valid. Just more fundamental. You can have systems that have data but >>> no behavior. >> >> If they have no behavior how can they be systems?
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> If your car has no microwave how can it be a vehicle?
Ah yes! Now I see! <eyes roll>
> A bunch of 3x5 cards in little drawers at the library is both a system
> and a database.
They are indeed a database. It is the way that they are used that is the system. Sitting there all alone in the dark with nobody using them, they are still a database. They are not a system.
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