Re: "I read this as a provocative joke." I didn't read it as just a joke.
The analogy with random fonts, etc. breaks down, I think, because randomizing the ordering would be an attempt to *improve* sqlite's usability -- not some pedantic punishment. If a user has problems with her sqlite output early in the process, leading to the discovery of a missing "ORDER BY" clause, the argument is that she has been dealt a favor. It's vastly worse for her to encounter a mysterious bug when the sqlite version is updated years from now to one which (perfectly correctly) returns a different ordering for that same query. Further, Dr. Hipp and his team won't have to deal with howls of "it's broken" when such a version is released. Just my opinion, Donald > > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
