Re: Common case not at all clear

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 8:44 PM Anthony Berglas <anthony(at)berglas(dot)org> wrote:

> My point is that while I can follow the academic style discussion, most of
> my colleagues could not. They just need to have a clear idea of how to
> handle the common case, which is to use a database using some programming
> language.
>

On the whole I believe that we are both mostly correct in our
observations. I would be happy to review a change to this section of the
documentation - whether done surgically or in a larger patch to make this
resource much more accessible to users. I don't plan to take on the
activity of putting together an initial patch for consideration. I will
observe that there haven't been many questions or comments pertaining to
this material hitting the mailing lists; though why that may be is
difficult to guess. Maybe it's covered better in books so people just
don't use this as a resource for the topic? In any case, the ability for
someone that knows this material well, but is a coder and not a teacher, to
write up something better and more accessible, and judging this is be a
better use of their time than some other activity, is fairly low. It does
seem, however, like an excellent project for someone who benefits from the
open source nature of the project and is looking for a way to both give
back to the community and learn a topic more fully at the same time.

David J.