Exploring the philosophy of objects

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Saturday, 25 June 2022 at 00:24:08 UTC, forkit wrote:
> (2) Philospohy and Programming/Programming Languages, are 
> deeply 'entangled' whether you have the capacity to see to that 
> level of detail, or not ;-)
>
> (3) the statement item (2) above is demonstrated throughout 
> academic literature on computing. It's not something I just 
> made up ;-)

There is a lot truth to that. The reason being, of course, that 
the users of the software are more important than the 
programmers… so you need to extract what users' needs are, 
communicate about it and turn it into something that is 
implementable (by whatever means). And you invariably end up with 
focusing on objects, processes and communication.

When I went to uni we were trained to do relational modelling 
with NIAM, also known as… [Object-Role 
Modelling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-role_modeling)! 
Yes, you read that right, we deal with *objects* when modelling 
tables.

To quote that wiki page: «An object-role model can be 
automatically mapped to relational and deductive databases (such 
as datalog).»

It can of course also be translated into an OOA model. One key 
difference is that OOA "clusters attributes", but Object-Role 
modelling is "free" of attributes and focus on relations.