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Re: [HACKERS] Inprise/Borland releasing Interbase as Opensource

Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>

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From: Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Jan Wieck <wieck@debis.com>
Cc: Jose Soares <jose@sferacarta.com>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, Stephen Birch <sbirch@ironmountainsystems.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 2000-01-04T23:49:31Z
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At 02:50 PM 1/4/00 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:

>Another _big_ issue is how clean the code is.  MySQL, for example,
>probably loses tons of people because their code is so poorly designed,
>and just plain ugly to me.

I'll have to say that the Postgres code's quite easy to follow, at
least at the "grasp-the-big-picture" level at which I've been reading
it on a casual, off-and-on basis.  Understanding it well enough to
contribute - well, that's another issue 'cause by its nature it is
a fairly complex beast!  



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