| From: | Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com> |
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| To: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee> |
| Cc: | Curt Sampson <cjs(at)cynic(dot)net>, Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, Greg Copeland <greg(at)CopelandConsulting(dot)Net>, PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: OOP real life example (was Re: Why is MySQL more |
| Date: | 2002-08-14 12:56:30 |
| Message-ID: | 3D5A537E.4020604@pacifier.com |
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Hannu Krosing wrote:
> I guess what he meant was that you were arguing for arguments sake (mine
> is better than yours! Yes it is! Yes it is! ...)
That's the dictionary definition of the phrase.
> and not to get to some
> solution,
and that's the source of the frustration. I only re-subscribed to the
list because we at OpenACS had examined PG's OO extensions quite
thoroughly before rejecting the current implementation as being not
useful for our work, and I thought our reasoning might be of interest.
> dismissing perfectly good arguments with a simple"not true"
> statements and suggesting people to read heavy books with the claim that
> the truth is somewhere in there ;)
and that's what's I mean when I say he's been arguing from authority.
--
Don Baccus
Portland, OR
http://donb.photo.net, http://birdnotes.net, http://openacs.org
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