Thank you all for your opinion. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Andrew Dunstan > Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 12:53 AM > To: Gevik Babakhani > Cc: 'Joshua Drake'; 'Jonah H. Harris'; 'Dave Page'; 'PGSQL > Hackers'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL future ideas > > > > Gevik Babakhani wrote: > >> I think the better question about all of this is: > >> What is the problem we are trying to solve? > >> Providing solutions that are looking for problems doesn't help us. > >> Sincerely, > >> > > > > Perhaps the current codebase and design in C will serve us > for years > > and years to come. In fact there is no doubt about that and > switching > > to an OO design is no easy task. But times change and technologies > > evolve. So should any software solution that is hoping to > continue and > > compete with other competitors of the same kind. > > > > Procedural programming languages like C may have been languages of > > choice for many years but they gradually loose developer > audience just > > because of the reason above. I am afraid PG is no exception here. > > > > > > That's a two way street. I have far more experience in writing C than > C++. No doubt I could adapt, but it would certainly slow me down for a > while at least. > > Frankly, this looks like a solution in search of a problem. When OS > kernels are all written in C++ I might accept that there is a > good case, > but I see no sign of anything like that happening. > > cheers > > andrew > > -- > Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers >
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