Re: PostgreSQL future ideas

From: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>
To: D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot)Cain <darcy(at)druid(dot)net>
Cc: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, "PGSQL Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL future ideas
Date: 2008-09-20 19:57:09
Message-ID: 82D027EB-B5DE-49AB-A5EF-4A785C5F21C5@hi-media.com
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Hi,

Who can resist the programming language game?

Le 19 sept. 08 à 22:37, D'Arcy J.M. Cain a écrit :
> On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:57:36 +0100
> "Dave Page" <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Gevik Babakhani <pgdev(at)xs4all(dot)nl>
>> wrote:
>>> Has there been any idea to port PG to a more modern programming
>>> language
>>> like C++? Of course there are some minor obstacles like a new OO
>>> design,
>>
>> The plan is to start porting it to Java after the next release -
>> probably at the beginning of April.
>
> I don't think that we should rush into any one language without
> checking the alternatives. Personally I think we should port
> everything
> to Intercal.

May I recall Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: "any sufficiently
complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-
specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp".

Regards,
- --
dim

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