In his September review of Access 2.0, Jim Carls states, ``Access 2.0, like 1.x, is an object-oriented RDBMS (relational database management system).'' He goes on to explain that ``an object is any item in the system that you can manipulate as a unit.'' This definition or description of an object is probably the weakest I have seen. Using this classification, Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, and Word could all be considered ``object-oriented'' by the very fact that you can manipulate cells, columns, charts, and pages as a unit. This sort of watered-down ``object-orientation'' causes people to think everything is ``object-oriented.''
Chris Cuilla
ccuilla@ccdd.com
Boulder, CO
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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