Re: What's holding Euphoria back?
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 00:05:41 -0500, Robert Craig <rds at EMAIL.MSN.COM> wrote:
>Irv Mullins writes:
>> 4. A lack of true random access for files.
>
>You can use seek() and where() to position yourself
>randomly at any byte in a file.
>
>If you want to set up a large database, where the size
>of the disk files matters, and the speed matters, I think
>you can easily write your own set of very simple low-level routines
>to take specific sequences and store them on disk compactly
>and efficiently, since you will typically know the format of the
>data you are storing, the sizes of integer values, the maximum
>length of strings etc.
>
>Regards,
> Rob Craig
> Rapid Deployment Software
> http://members.aol.com/FilesEu/
Easily?
I was thinking of updating a small bookeeping package I wrote
10 years ago. My first thought was to write it in Euphoria.
I soon realized that I would have to write I/O routines for
15 different files, all of which need random access to records.
Now, considering I can accomplish the same task in, for instance,
Pascal, without having to write any low-level i/o, and
without introducing buggy code somewhere in those 15 i/o
packages, which language do you think I chose to do the job?
Please note: I do NOT consider the above to be in any way a "large"
commercial package.
Irv
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