Re: RDMS Database's and/or Record Managers What good is Euphoria?
Kat wrote:
>On 22 Jan 2004, at 10:53, Isaac Raway wrote:
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>>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.
>>
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>What do you want that is not already in strtok?
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Well, I've never used strtok, but I will give it a try now that you
mention it. It looks to be most useful for parsing source code (which is
great), but not for creating a database. Databases should not be doing
any string tokenization of any kind. That wouldn't be a database, it'd
be a flat text file. Databases use virtual file systems with paged
storage methods and separate indexes, and most importantly, always
access their data files in a binary fashion.
I'll admit that there are systems very much *like* databases that do not
quite fit that description, but those are not really databases.
When I say database, I mean relational database, which I assumed is a
given when talking about business software.
~ Isaac
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