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["John Howe" <warlock@arashi.com>]

Hey All,

Been travelling quite a bit this Fall, Florida and now in Minnesota.

> Anyway, I'd like to open a discussion about moving in this direction.
> I'd primarily like to hear from John H. and John S. as I suspect that
> this may be pretty disappointing to them.

Right tool for the right job. I do think an OO interface makes sense,
though implementation is more time consuming. The move of the project to
ibiblio was always the goal.

> My thoughts in a bulleted list:
>   o Why RDBMS?

I would bring up the earlier discussions I have commented on regarding
normalizing the database as we move forward.

>   o Why not ORM (Object Relational Mapper)?

Something to keep in mind for the future still. OO has been around since
1968, though industry adoption seems slow...

>
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> Chad Knepp
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