From: | Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> |
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To: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: have you seen this? |
Date: | 2004-05-28 01:20:33 |
Message-ID: | m3ekp5ny8u.fsf@wolfe.cbbrowne.com |
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After a long battle with technology, dan(at)langille(dot)org ("Dan Langille"), an earthling, wrote:
> I have no problem directing people to the right tool for the job.
> Sometimes that tool is PostgreSQL. Sometimes it is not. PostgreSQL
> cannot please everyone all the time.
It may well be a mistake to try to please all the people all the
time. I think that was exactly what Tom Christiansen had in mind when
he wrote:
"Huh? Windows was designed to keep the idiots away from Unix so we
could hack in peace. Let's not break that." -- Tom Christiansen
Microsoft tries to market Windows as being "all things for all
people;" much of its badness comes from that.
"If Ada became the hot, in-language you would see a lot more bad
code in Ada." -- Thaddeus L. Olczyk <olczyk(at)interaccess(dot)com>,
comp.lang.C++
If PostgreSQL became as popular as MS-Access, we'd find people doing
hideous things with it. (Or, to be more precise, doing _even more
hideous_ things ;-).)
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