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10 years ago I wrote a sales system in Perl with a couple of friends. We charged something like US$750 (it was really simple: uses a hash instead of a database)
by forinti 14y ago
10 years ago I wrote a sales system in Perl with a couple of friends. We charged something like US$750 (it was really simple: uses a hash instead of a database). It is still going strong (no bugs reported) and about US$500.000 has been sold with it. That's what I call ROI and stability!
- themonk 14y agohash is know as nosql in modern world.
- rokhayakebe 14y ago$500,000.00
- forinti 14y agoOps. Sorry 'bout that.
- dkersten 14y agoTotally off topic, but I really dislike how ruby (and I guess others?) has popularized the word hash to mean a hash table. I stare at that sentence for a good two minutes thinking "how does someone use md5/sha etc instead of a database???" before I realized what was meant. There are plenty of good (and well known) unambiguous names for this data structure that I really don't understand why it needs to be given a name that's in common use to refer to something different (and only kind-of related really). Some alternative names that have been in common use since the dawn of time are hash table, hash map, map, dictionary or associative array.
- abecedarius 14y agoI think it's the Perlers who started saying that; it predates Ruby's popularity. (And I agree, I still stumble over it every time I read it.)