The MySQL petition

[Paul Lussier]

Stephen Ryan <stephen at sryanfamily.info> writes:

> On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 10:50 -0500, Paul Lussier wrote:
>
>> That being said, I can only hope for the quick, and painful demise of
>> both MySql and PHP.
>> 
>> --
>> Paul - who is trapped in a company with close to 1 million MySql
>> databases being accessed by really bad PHP code.
>
> ...because having close to 1 million {PostgreSQL, Interbase, CouchDB,
> SQLite} databases being accessed by really bad {Java, Python, Ruby, C++,
> assembler, shell} code would be so much better.

Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:
>   {Microsoft, Oracle, IBM} guy: Having 1 million {MS-SQL, Oracle, DB2}
> databases being accessed by really bad {C#, PL/SQL, PL/I} code would
> of course be better!

Exactly! :)

I'm glad my post was taken with exactly the intent in which
it was meant... Of course, Ben, et al, know me entirely too well to take
anything I say in such a vain without the largest grain salt available
:)

--
Paul - who still dislikes both MySQL and PHP, but has come to
understand neither is going to be universally replaced by something
better anytime soon.