On 18 June 2010 08:15, Graeme Geldenhuys <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17 June 2010 22:33, Henry Vermaak wrote: >> >> Not to mention speed. I've written code for hash table indexed files, >> and it isn't pretty. > > And amazingly everybody managed just for for 15+ years (in the OS/2, > DOS, Win3.11 era) before RDBMS became popular on desktop systems. If
Not every program needs this. It's a specific use case. Even word processing formats are now based on xml that's compressed. If you don't need the speed, stick with human readable formats. > you can't program something as simply as a binary storage system for > some application data, then maybe you (any developer - not > specifically targeted at you) should have a change in career. _Everyone_ can roll their own, and we all have. But it's not going to be fast, reliable and robust. Some people will just never learn, maybe _they_ need a change of career. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
