Exploring the philosophy of objects

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Saturday, 25 June 2022 at 18:05:31 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> Whether tables or objects are a better way of organizing data 
> is a decades-old debate that I have no intention of wading into 
> here.

What debate? You can easily represent objects in a relational 
database. One table for the superclass, another one for the 
subclass extension. The main discussion has really been about 
whether you want relational or hierarchical structure. The latter 
is better for performance. It is fairly easy to distribute 
objects or hierarchical, but relational is harder, yet very 
flexible. Keep in mind that XML databases often are implemented 
as relational tables, and you can represent objects as XML with 
ease…

The real clash is really with lower level languages adding OOP, 
as OOP is very much a high level concept. Java and C# don't 
really improve a whole lot on the runtime organization over 
Simula. Which is sad. Still primitive in other words.