| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Thomas Hallgren <thhal(at)mailblocks(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL in the press again |
| Date: | 2004-11-13 17:45:50 |
| Message-ID: | 20041113134501.K3792@ganymede.hub.org |
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On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>>
>> It is never the fault of a programming language per se. People with a good
>> understanding of object design will write "object oriented code" in every
>> language, even assembler. People who just don't know what they are doing
>> will write bad code, and the best Pascal compiler in the world won't be
>> able to prevent that.
>
> Yes but I believe even you would agree that their are programming languages
> that are better for certain tasks than others. The use of java as a
> replication engine for PostgreSQL seems, well... incorrect.
We definitely concur with that, which is why we are re-writing it ...
going to Java, as Andrew has mentioned, was *not* a design decision that
we made, but was made for us :(
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