From: Rob Sanheim <rsanheim@...>
Date: 2006-09-12T14:50:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Joel Spolsky on languages for web programming

On 9/11/06, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's an Opinion. A potentially valid one, but just an Opinion.
>
> Frankly, DHH has made a number of mistakes in his Opinions on what a
> database should do. Some of these are worse than others -- encoding
> MySQL semantics into AR behaviour (when MySQL is *not* doing the right
> thing by any measure) is a good one.
[snip]
> --
> Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * http://www.halostatue.ca/

Hi Austin

Could you elaborate on this?  I'm curious as to what you mean by
"mysql semantics into AR behaviour".  Do you mean the preference to
treat a database as a glorified hash, and not enforcing any
constraints at the db level?

thanks,
Rob
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