| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Jan Wieck <wieck(at)debis(dot)com>, Jose Soares <jose(at)sferacarta(dot)com>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Stephen Birch <sbirch(at)ironmountainsystems(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Inprise/Borland releasing Interbase as Opensource |
| Date: | 2000-01-04 21:49:21 |
| Message-ID: | 200001042149.QAA25414@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> At 02:50 PM 1/4/00 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >Another _big_ issue is how clean the code is. MySQL, for example,
> >probably loses tons of people because their code is so poorly designed,
> >and just plain ugly to me.
>
> I'll have to say that the Postgres code's quite easy to follow, at
> least at the "grasp-the-big-picture" level at which I've been reading
> it on a casual, off-and-on basis. Understanding it well enough to
> contribute - well, that's another issue 'cause by its nature it is
> a fairly complex beast!
Totally true. Education is very important, and clean coding helps with
that.
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