On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:45:52 -0700 Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa.com> wrote:
> This from the same company that gave us ODBC, ESQL, OLE DB, MDAC/Jet, > DAO, RDO, ADO, ADO.NET, ADO Entity Framework, LINQ, the registry, > Access, SQL Server Express? The real irony is that every one of those technologies had (I'll bet) more resources expended on it than SQLite has had. > Obviously getting SQLite into Windows is a great thing. It?s just > that it would have been even nicer a decade ago. It's more like 25 years. The registry, with all its obvious defects, made its appearance in Windows 3.1, which the oracle Wikipedia puts at 1992. At the time Microsoft already had the Jet engine, demonstrating the feasibility of implementing relational technology on the machines of the day. How many needless, mysterious Windows problems can be linked to the registry's tree structure and failure to enforce consistency? How many programmers over those decades could have benefited from built-in DBMS technology? How much less schlock might we have today if every Windows programmer had been unwittingly exposed to set theory as a basic feature of the OS? I'm happy to see Microsoft has seen the light in some sense, even though there's no chance the SQLite folks will be justly compensated. I'll be impressed when SQLite is a kernel driver and GetPrivateProfileString is a SELECT statement. --jkl
