Re: OO versus RDB

David Barrett-Lennard wrote:
(snip)
Anyway your response seems like another meta-physical argument to me.
You are interested in talking about what's real and what isn't. That
is meta-physics.

I'm instead talking about the difference between "things" (whether you
call them real or not) that can reside on a computer or not.

Nope. You're talking about the (non-existing) difference between
'technical' objects (GUI Buttons, files, etc) vs 'domain' objects.

The problem is that you fail to recognize that this distinction is
totally arbitrary and only depends on the problem at hand. Within the
code of a GUI toolkit, a 'button' object *is* part of the problem domain
- it's only seen has a 'technical' object from code using the GUI
toolkit. And *all* of theses 'objects' are just a (more or less)
convenient abstraction for some bunches of bits in the computer's
memory. The fact that they abstract something that's somewhat
computer-related (GUI widgets) or informations about something/someone
that happens to exist in the 'real world' (for the commonly accepted
definitions of 'real world' and 'existence') is *totally* irrelevant.
The only sensible question here is : "is this abstraction convenient for
the problem at hand ?". And the anwser does not only depend on the
problem to solve - it's also for a great part a matter of personal
preference.

(snip)


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