On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Mark Rotteveel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:42:55 +0200, marius adrian popa <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I saw it today on reddit , that postgre added json as core type >> >> > http://people.planetpostgresql.org/andrew/index.php?/archives/244-Under-the-wire.html > > I don't really see the added benefit of having this as part of a database > itself. IMHO, it is a database, not a > 'do-everything-I-want-with-my-data'-base. I do understand it can be easy > for some users, but easy should not always be the prime motivator. > > Is this BTW a switch from the saying 'Eventually all programs will evolve > to also send mail (or be replaced by programs that do)' by a similar saying > that has 'send mail' replaced by 'process JSON' (as also happened with XML > in the end of 90s start of 00s)? >
Well json won and it event not tried to beat the xml vs json wars http://www.json.org/xml.html >From a practical perspective i'm on the fourth json based api service (rails/django) that i'm working on Twitter switched to json only api (that would be the fifth project ) http://blog.programmableweb.com/2010/11/10/twitter-goes-json-only-with-one-api-more-to-come/ And if you wonder why is that well in ajax it's a lot easier to use json directly and faster (java script native type) http://www.json.org/js.html So i'm thinkig that making things easier for webdevel would be cool but of course all the formatting can be done externally from php,python,javascript ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
