I think it best to program it in raw assembler and store the data on a 1.44 floppy in EBCDIC.
FWIW.
Mark W.
:-D
PS. As per my original email on this. Why do people want to re-invent the wheel? There's a package on freshmeat that could be taken, customised and whacked on a linux box in say... a couple of hours. :-O Am I missing something here? Is the objective a programming exercise or to get a library system running?
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Freeman" david_freeman@rocketmail.com To: alug@stu.uea.ac.uk Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 5:08 PM Subject: one thread, three holy wars was Re: [Alug] ALUG Library ...
--- Neill Newman neill@entora.co.uk wrote:
Andrew Savory wrote:
On Wed, 02 May, 2001 at 21:51 +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
Agghhhhh! Not the omnipotent, and very nasty hack that is MySQL
;) Can I
suggest that after "learning" from MySQL you try a real database
system
that actually works such as PostgreSQL.
*sigh* I really hate it when I have to say this....
I agree with Brett. He has a good point.If we want to showcase the best of free software and what linux can
do,
let's use Postgres eh? Postgres is a true ACID relational database, stable, secure, full-featured and with extensive support for SQL92.
MySQL,
um, isn't.
yep, and until recently MySQL didn't have transaction support !!! hhmm nice and resilient ;).. Postgress gets my vote...
So we have the holywar about Which language to write it in, now we have a second holy war over which RDBMS we use, couple this with the XML/HTML war and wow!
Can we get Vi vs EMacs in as well?
Thoughts on what language to implement this in... Perl + DBI is
nice and
quick, Java is a little much for the initial site but might be a
nice
project for someone to add later. Ruby is always being mentioned to
me but
I have no idea if it has DBI-like features or not. Then there's the
evils
of the world such as PHP, Embperl, ASP.... can we steer clear of
these?
Perl/DBI sounds good to me.... although I have to admit that I like php ;)...
Perl? I never quite got to grips with perl, I have tried but I just don't understand it. What are its pros and cons?
How about SmallTalk as the language? or maybe something even more obscour, like ML or Prolog, will they do it?
Thanks
D
Sz
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