From: James Moore <jamesthepiper@...>
Date: 2007-03-22T05:40:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci

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On 3/20/07, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Data is king. Applications are pawns.
>

Data is a dead fish.  Applications are knowing how to fish.  There are minor
edge cases where data is more important ("feed me now or I die of
starvation"), but in the grand scheme of things data is insignificant
compared to the applications that produce and transform it.

We use relational databases as object stores because they're cheap and
easily available, not because they're good for the task.

 - James Moore

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