[wellylug] simple super basic bash question

[David Antliff]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Enkidu wrote:
> Writing databases in shell is like teaching an elephant to tap dance -
> interesting if you can do it, but no practical use. Mind you, perl is
> not really an enormous lot better, I suppose, though there's a lot of
> perl supporting a lot of databases on a lot of servers around the
> world.

Although there are better solutions, implementing a simple relational db 
with the shell and a few tools would better suit a limited-resource 
platform like an embedded system than a fully blown (or even trimmed) 
database backend with or without Perl. However in that situation a custom 
datastructure implemented in a language like C probably isn't much more 
effort anyway and chances are it will integrate better with the rest of 
the system. Depends on a lot of things really.

I would love to have Perl on our embedded targets but it just ain't gonna 
happen...!


-- 
David.