Re: RDBMS for DOS and Windows
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> Poster: Brian Jackson <bjackson at 2FARGON.COM>
> Subject: Re: RDBMS for DOS and Windows
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> I hate to say it, but think that programming in C might be the way to go.
> If you avoid all the C++ junk and just code in good old-fashioned Borland
> Turbo-C v 5, it ought to be fairly easy to accomplish using the BTrieve
> routines. It's not THAT big of a jump from Euphoria to C. I wish I had a
> better suggestion, but short of upgrading the workstations to Windows or
> converting the whole system over to Linux, I can't come up with anything
> that will work with Eu.
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> Brian
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I have to agree here. I don't code in C but have looked over good old
fashion C and it isn't that hard... Again. Avoid all the really fancy
things like anything dealing with C++. Easiest way to avoid the C++ stuff
is to get a book about C. You know, without the ++ on the end of it.
The language is much smaller than the C++ version and shouldn't be that
hard to learn. Of course you will have to do your own garbage collection
and debugging will be more difficult because the errors generated usually
aren't near as helpful as with Euphoria. But the executable code could
be much tighter and run a little bit faster. Don't know about hooking
into the networking though. Plus you have to do some file share locking
tricks during any updates the database. Hmm... Starting to sound like a
full fledged project. :( ICK... Glad I'm not coding this. :)
Have fun.
Lucius L. Hilley III
lhilley at cdc.net
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