On 17 June 2010 20:07, Graeme Geldenhuys <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17/06/2010, Henry Vermaak wrote: >> re-invent the wheel. Why would you design your own buggy binary data >> file that only your program can read, > > Last time I checked, writing a record to a binary file was pretty damn > easy. I think I learned that in my first year of Turbo Pascal > programming back in high school (many, many years ago). I can't see > why that would be buggy either.
I've seen horrendous bugs, overflow, corruption. What happens if your structures change? Can you do relations? Let's not compare apples with pears. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
