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So it turns out that when viaweb was sold to Yahoo pg learned that Yahoo was also using flat files. But "that was 1995 and there were no free db solutions," as
by CalmQuiet 18y ago
So it turns out that when viaweb was sold to Yahoo pg learned that Yahoo was also using flat files. But "that was 1995 and there were no free db solutions," as someone pointed out.
Couple years ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14608 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14608 noted that Lisp works very well with flat files:: the plot thickens. Alas, what's a baby boomer accustomed to simple PHP/MySQL solutions to do... try to wrap his head around a completely new file and language approach?
- allenbrunson 18y agomy theory is that pg is a special case. i tried to learn lisp, given his appreciation for it, but i never could think of anything to do with it. most problems tend to strongly suggest a particular language, and in my case, that has never been lisp. i started a big data-intensive project awhile ago, and thought about using flat files. i tend to use them myself, whenever possible. but i couldn't easily see a way around contention issues between many coordinated processes, so i punted and went with mysql.