Re: Quote from comp.object
From: Marshall <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 5 Mar 2007 13:34:10 -0800
Message-ID: <1173130449.818492.45020_at_s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com>
Date: 5 Mar 2007 13:34:10 -0800
Message-ID: <1173130449.818492.45020_at_s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com>
On Mar 5, 11:48 am, "DBMS_Plumber" <paul_geoffrey_br..._at_yahoo.com>
wrote:
> On Mar 5, 11:34 am, "Marshall" <marshall.spi..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Erlang for example is a programming language whose computational
> > model can support hundreds of thousands of simultaneous processes,
> > yet has very high reliability and uptime.
>
> I could be convinced of this. It's an attractive idea, but speaking
> purely as a plumber, you're going to have a very hard time convincing
> me that higher level 'functional' languages are a practical platform
> for implementing something like a DBMS.
Marshall Received on Mon Mar 05 2007 - 22:34:10 CET