From: Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...>
Date: 2007-03-30T07:09:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 05:13:35AM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Austin Ziegler wrote:
> >Please, please, *please* read more about relational theory before you
> >make statements like this, because it's technical nonsense. There *is*
> >no "object model."
> Yet. That you know of. Yet. :)
> 
> Seriously, the folks in the UK that developed the PI-Calculus have done 
> some work in computer-science models of objects, but I don't know enough 
> about them to know if they're relevant to this discussion. The one 
> reference I have is on the edge of my readability scale -- if I sat down 
> with the book and the right programming language, I might be able to 
> learn it, but there are other things I'm more interested in doing.

Are you referring to Abadi and Cardelli's object calculi? They don't seem any
more related to OODBs than say lambda calculus to the relational model, but
you can indeed consider them "object models", that term being as ambiguous as
it is :)

FWIW,  http://lucacardelli.name/TheoryOfObjects.html
       http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/abadi94theory.html

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