From kde-core-devel  Mon Sep 22 01:36:00 2003
From: Daniel Stone <daniel () fooishbar ! org>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 01:36:00 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Proposal: Encouraging DB-using applications
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On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 09:38:32AM +0200, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> DBs are useful when you need to sort through massive amounts of data in=
=20
> various ways. In most cases, given today's machines power, grepping throu=
gh a=20
> flat text file will be more than enough to satisfy the data-related needs=
 of=20
> an application.

So on the Pentium 166's that Computerbank hands out to applicants, they sho=
uld
be grepping through flat files in massive recipe databases, for instance? "=
But
CPU power is cheap these days" does not hold water, and is not a valid excu=
se.
Instead, it should always be taken to expose the real underlying reason: la=
zy
developers.

Some of the most technically-clued people I know are still stuck on PII 350=
s,
BTW. Including one who left KOffice devel because the *apps* themselves were
too painfully slow and his patches to speed them up were rejected. So next =
time
you find yourself telling the list how cheap resources are, stop, think, and
recant.

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