Re: How to make RDBMS ?

From: Todd Gillespie <toddg_at_linux128.ma.utexas.edu>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 07:52:23 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <a13mvn$rk1$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>

D_at_b.a wrote:

: In article <6deec17084767286fd50b21af8a545ec.44906_at_mygate.mailgate.org>, Custom
: Key says...

:>If you are doing this as a mental exercise or class assignment ... go to it!!!
:>
:>I could be wrong but, if you are thinking of writing the next commercial
:>RDBMS you may have been bitten by the "hello world" bug. Your time might
:>be better spent developing a slick application that uses one of the
:>well-known systems.

: Hey, Linus Torvalds could easily get the same sort of advise before he engaged : into his famous enterprise;-)

I get the impression that Linus was several years into Linux before he admitted it had become more than just a plaything or school project. Code just seems to grow a mind and will of its own -- at least when it has users, that is.

: Although, admittedly, RDBMS is much more complex than OS.

I have lately come to believe that that is a misconception. What is undeniably true is that the OS problem was attacked first, but I think the DB problem is inherently simpler. Received on Fri Jan 04 2002 - 01:52:23 CST