On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Baruch Burstein <bmburst...@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > I am curious about the usefulness of sqlite's "unique" type handling,
>
>
> SQLite is not unique in this respect.  Lots of other languages use
> flexible, dynamic typing:  Javascript, Perl, Python, Tcl, AWK come quickly
> to mind.  SQLite began as a TCL extension, so it should not be surprising
> that it follows Tcl's dynamic typing model.
>

It is unique (to my knowledge) among SQL engines, which is the language
category SQLite falls into. Those others are all general programming
languages which is a very different category.

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