Re: OOP/OOD Philosophy

frebe wrote:

> The question is if really need switchability between different data
> paradigms. In history there have been three -hierachical, network and
> relational. All but relational is obsolete. There might come new
> paradigms, but it seem to take at least 10-20 years between every
> generation. As pointed out in my answer to Feathers it is impossible to
> know how a future paradigm would affect the application structure, so
> trying to prefare for an unknown future in this case, is just wast of
> money.

So you are saying that the paradigm can couple out to the other modules,
even when the actual technology is insulated. Fair enough.

> Once we identified the need for a RDBMS in an application, we can be
> resonable sure that a RDBMS could be used during the entire life-cycle
> of the application.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. ;-)

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