[wellylug] simple super basic bash question

[Enkidu]

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:14:49 +1300 (NZDT), you wrote:

>
>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.
>
Why would you need a relational DB on an embedded system? Surely the
aim would be to offload data as quickly as possible. Probably a naive
question based on zero knowledge, sorry!

Cheers,

Cliff
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