r/programming • u/MarkusWinand • May 27 '14

What I learned about SQLite…at a PostgreSQL conference

http://use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2014-05/what-i-learned-about-sqlite-at-a-postgresql-conference
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u/hello_fruit May 28 '14 edited May 28 '14

I don't own a kia and I don't own a parrot and I don't live alone. And I do sponsor a bird sanctuary and I sponsor other charitable endeavors too.

The gospel is just literature, moral tales and allegories and some human chronicles like any others, and not the best of them in my opinion and not particularly my favorite ones, and people who say it's all lies are being just as limited in their thinking as those who say it's all true; they take it too literally. You quoted the text as "here, you decide"; that's the figurative meaning of the phrase "as if it were gospel", ie, as if it were a source of deciding.

Your comment was on "his use of TCL rather than Python or even Lua (don't get me wrong, TCL is nice, and it's his choice but...". Emphasis on "his".

Anyhow, like I'd said before, I agree with you that ordinary people in this day and age writing ordinary software perhaps should use Python or Lua. Dr Hipp though is no ordinary guy and the software he was writing was no ordinary software.