On 17 June 2010 20:26, Henry Vermaak <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Not to mention speed. I've written code for hash table indexed files, and it isn't pretty. Henry -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
