| From: | Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jan Wieck <wieck(at)debis(dot)com> |
| Cc: | 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 23:49:31 |
| Message-ID: | 3.0.1.32.20000104154931.00ed9658@mail.pacifier.com |
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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!
- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
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