1. Re: RDMS Database's and/or Record Managers What good is Euphoria?
Play toy? Dude. This is a euphoria mailing list. Might not want to call
the language a "play toy" in such company.
Business applications are lightweight on the actual code. What's
important is the database. That might be a bit trickier because there
aren't many available for Euphoria, but it is no reflection on the language.
sixs wrote:
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>Is Euphoria powerful for business applications or just a play toy, not
>competing with Visual Basic or Delphi or?
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ray Smith [mailto:smithr at ix.net.au]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 9:12 PM
>To: EUforum at topica.com
>Subject: RE: RDMS Database's and/or Record Managers
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>Euman wrote:
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>>From: "Ray Smith" <smithr at ix.net.au>
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>>>but I dont believe you are giving people the full picture of what
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>RDBMS
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>>Why would i?
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>Because you are giving an overview of Databases vs Record Managers
>and then saying how good record managers are.
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>>Have you even given tsunami a look Ray?
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>I looked at the tsunami record manager in the past but not since you
>created your eu wrappers.
>I'm not saying the tsunami record manager is bad in anyway at all.
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>>Just how much easier is this than the tsunami wrappers?
>>1) to learn
>>2) for speed
>>3) for security (any encryption routine will do, there are several in
>>the RDS archive)
>> *(Tsunami Pro has built-in encryption)
>>4) total control of your data
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>I listed (and hence agree) that there is more work in setting up and
>mainting a RDBMS.
>>From a programming point of view SQL can give you alot of flexibility
>and power that record managers don't give you. And yes, it will take
>more time for a developer to learn these things but that time should
>be recoped in the long term by the efficiency of these powerful
>tools and technologies.
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>>>The Pros for RDBMS
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>>>A good RDBMS is "almost" always required for large and complex
>>>projects.
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>>Is this true?
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>I beleive it's true.
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>>Can you see anything written useing euphoria's speed for large projects
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>>anyway?
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>I agree, I personally don't think Euphoria can handle large complex
>systems.
>That doesn't mean that I wouldn't use a database for a Euphoria
>project though ;)
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