[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Argument: Software design is important, data design is not
I'm going to agree with Mr. Cook on this one; everything is wrong with this argument. Software _is_ data, it's data about how to handle other data. Now, it has some context which, in the right hands, turns it into information. And if you put that information into the right system or persons hands and you might get useful knowledge, but at the end of the day without the data you have nothing. As to data design, in the end it's all a graph (data and therefore software) but what allows us to traverse that graph efficiently is making the right connections between vertices in the graph. Those resultant connections are data design, be it OO, relational, documents, what have you, and they have only two purposes: human consumption or to make graph traversal (ie; software) simpler. Spend as much time as you can on data design, once you have that correct then building your software will be much easier, if it's even needed... Peter Hunsberger
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org> wrote: Hi Folks,
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