Robert Treat wrote: > On Tuesday 27 April 2004 15:12, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > You know, that's kind of the point of all things related to MySQL. > > "It's better than nothing." PostgreSQL doesn't do things because "it's > > better than nothing." <snip> > > (Same as how MySQL guesses the result of a modulo operation, and gets it > > wrong. They don't care and you can read that on the manual. In > > Postgres, this is a bug.) > > > > Hey Alvaro, > are you familiar with "worse is better" philosphy in software development and > how that leads to adoption rates? It basically states that simplicity is the > ultimate design goal over correctness, consitency, and completness. Because > of this more people are able to quickly adopt a technology, which allows the > incorrectness/inconsistency/incompletness to be address by new comers and > gradually bring the software up to higher standards. I was reading some > blogs the other day that applied this to PHP's adoption rate over Java and > .net, but your comment made me think this really applies to my$ql and > postgresql as well. check out > http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1121502&postcount=2 for a bit > more.
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