Florian,
Without trying to be condescending, now you are just being silly. :)
We replace traditional files with computer files because of (just to name a
few) their ease of storage, replication, indexing and retrieval. We replace
traditional accounting systems with computer based accounting systems
because it saves us time and lets bean-counters slice and dice data in ways
that are not possible with paper based systems. These switches came about
because there were advantages to the new technologies that didn't exist with
the old. Where are the advantage of an application talking it's RDBMS via
XML as opposed to SQL?
I use PHP because I like it...and it offers me the advantage of being able
to quickly get the job done without the complexities of C++. There are
things that PHP can't do; when I need them , I drop out of it and into
another language.
I do OO because it offers me a great advantage with respect to code reuse.
I find that my % of code reuse is much higher in the systems I write in OO
than in procedural.
See the pattern here, these technologies are used because they offer an
advantage.
Cal
http://www.calevans.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Florian G. Pflug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 7:10 PM
To: Cal Evans
Cc: Florian G. Pflug; Juergen Fey; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: XML support under mySQL
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 06:50:27PM -0600, Cal Evans wrote:
> How is this superior to SQL? Why replace a great, stable and mature
> language for querying databases with a verbose one?
Because it _might_ be the great, stable and matura language for storing and
querying data of tomorrow......
By your logic, why even replace traditional files (i mean those consisting
of _real_ paper) with this computer crap?
And why use PHP/Perl/Phyton instead of great, stable and matura C?
Why do OO-Programming? Procedural programming is much more matura?
>
> Also, a database IS a huge archive of structured data. :)
The kind of structure that an table (essentially n-tuples of values) can
represent is not nearly as powerfull as an XML-Tree.....
Greetings, Florian Pflug
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