Re: POD speed

From: Chris Smith (cdsmith_at_twu.net)
Date: 06/23/04 

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:07:14 -0600

Lee,

I'm getting out of this conversation. It's getting very long and not
doing either of us any good. We seem to disagree on a few things
irreconcilably, such as whether application-private data exists, whether
Satan invented all procedural programming languages, and whether someone
using a relational database will be inclined to use its data integrity
checking features even when the same person would apparently never write
a line of Java code to accomplish the same task.

I'm not willing to take C. J. Date's word that procedural languages are
the epitomy of evil. Quite simply put, he is a very biased source, and
Date can apparently convince himself with his own arguments well before
he convinces me. If you intend to actually make arguments (or at least
make reference to specific arguments from Date's book, though I don't
have a copy at the moment and would find that difficult to follow
personally), then some progress could, perhaps, be made in this
discussion; instead, I'm seeing a lot of arguing from the *assumption*
that object-oriented approaches to problems are inherently inferior when
a relational approach exists. That's not getting anywhere, since I
don't accept your premise.

This started with a statement that was far over the top about the
usefulness of data in the absence of a relational database. I think
I'll just rely on readers of the newsgroup to make their own judgements
on whether data managed by a non-relational database -- even one that
doesn't check a lot of constraints -- is really very near to "garbage"
or not. 

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