From: William Grosso <wgrosso@...>
Date: 2006-09-13T12:33:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Joel Spolsky on languages for web programming

Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On 9/12/06, William Grosso <wgrosso@wgrosso.com> wrote:
>> Austin Ziegler wrote:
>> > SQL databases suck, but MySQL implements SQL so badly that it
>> > shouldn't even be called an SQL database.
>> I think we're running into a terminology issue here. If we think
>> of MySQL as a data persistence and retrieval mechanism, it has
>> certain properties and is optimized for certain types of
>> applications.
> 
> You mean "applications where the integrity of the data is completely
> irrelevant."
> 

No, I meant exactly what I said.

Thanks for putting words in my mouth though.


William Grosso