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RE: APIs, messaging
- From: Al Snell <alaric@alaric-snell.com>
- To: Jeff Lowery <jlowery@scenicsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 23:16:11 +0100 (BST)
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Jeff Lowery wrote:
> I order bacon from three butchers: a document-centric butcher, an
> object-centric butcher, and a data-centric butcher:
That's fine for a data-like metaphor :-)
How about that the object-centric pet shop sends you a pig that responds
to being petted, fed, etc. as you expect, while the data-centric pet shop
sends you a book about how pigs respond to stimuli, or a stuffed, dead,
pig :-)
ABS
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