From: Rich Morin Date: 2006-09-13T02:29:17+09:00 Subject: Re: Joel Spolsky on languages for web programming At 1:57 AM +0900 9/13/06, Austin Ziegler wrote: > MySQL is a big sticking pile that should be left in the scrapheap. No, really, tell us how you REALLY feel about it. (:-). FWIW, a friend of mine is a seasoned DB programmer who migrated from Oracle to PostgreSQL a few years ago. He says similar things about MySQL. Worse, however, he says that RoR is destined to be saddled with MySQL workarounds far into the future. Consequently, he dismisses Rails as a whole, which is a shame. Given that RoR is extremely modular, I see no real reason why this must be the case. If some folks that are sharp in both PostgreSQL and Ruby (note: I am not one :-) were willing to make the effort, AR could be enhanced (or replaced, if need be) to provide clean DB semantics. Until that time, the AR/MySQL hegemony will continue to dominate RoR practice. As they say, an ounce of implementation trumps a pound of rhetoric... -r -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume rdm@cfcl.com http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog +1 650-873-7841 Technical editing and writing, programming, and web development