Re: Real world musings

From: Paul Campbell (p.au.l.ca.mp.b.ell_at_ob.jectvi.sion.c.o.u.k)
Date: 12/17/03 

Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:56:26 -0000

"Richard MacDonald" <macdonaldrj@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:Xns945167F94DCF0macdonaldrjworldneta@204.127.36.1...
> My current project required insert, select and update. This killed my
> single String fragment class, so I refactored to add back my SqlDatabase,
> SqlTable, and SqlRow objects. A few more objects and a bit more
> complexity, but it handled the new requirements much better.

I think your dialema is more about the appropriate amount of sophistication
for the solution rather than the issue of it being "real world". Nievely simple
APIs tend to scale much worse with added requirements than appropriately
(note - not overly) sophisticated ones.

Paul C.