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Microsoft Research's C-Omega

Posted by timothy on from the at-long-last dept.

Microsoft Research has produced a data-oriented programming language by merging C#, XPath and SQL. O'Reilly's XML.com website the inside scoop on the language in the article titled Introducing C-Omega written by Dare Obasanjo.

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  1. Re:data != object by TuringTest · · Score: 2, Informative

    XSLT is an example of a data oriented language: you define what to do for every kind of data that can be found in a data flow; you specify how to transform the old data into the new one.

    In an object oriented language, you build classes of objects that make series of calls to other objects following a given recipe.

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