I won't abuse the patience of our hosts by prolonging this debate, but I disagree strongly with this theme.
I have almost certainly written more C/C++ code than you or most of the people on this list, and I never choose it first. I am personally at least 3 times as productive in C# as I am in C (slightly narrower margin in C++), and computers are far cheaper than brains. This theme is strongly reminiscent of arguments over moving from assembly language, and it's basically wrong. The best tool is the one that gets the required job done with maximal speed at minimal cost. And just for the record, C# does not compile into byte code. I suggest you check your facts. Regards David M Bennett FACS Andl - A New Database Language - andl.org -----Original Message----- From: sqlite-users-boun...@mailinglists.sqlite.org [mailto:sqlite-users-bounces at mailinglists.sqlite.org] On Behalf Of Aleksey Tulinov Sent: Monday, 15 June 2015 10:32 AM To: General Discussion of SQLite Database Subject: Re: [sqlite] Mozilla wiki 'avoid SQLite' On 15/06/15 01:00, Simon Slavin wrote: Simon, > Perhaps the next generation of computer languages will be designed by computer, to let us speak to them in an efficient manner. > I'm sure computer would insist on C, if not, then it's apparently a software bug. On a serious note, i think it's rather question of programming computers or programming another programs. As you've mentioned, higher level languages often compiles into byte-code which is then interpreted by virtual machine. So you don't speak to machine, you speak to mediator who speak to machine. This by definition an overhead, with growing complexity of the program, overhead will grow accordingly, this is unavoidable. I think it's also fair to say that SQL is not for programming machines (no offense), it's for programming SQLite and other database implementations. Even if something is called "virtual machine", VM always behaves somehow differently from The Machine, thus programmer' efforts has mediated effect on latter. Of course VM could do a good job in a specific domain, but each VM limits the liberty of expressing yourself to the machine and vice versa. In my opinion best database language would reflect the way in which database works and best computer programming language would reflect the way in which computer works, as close as reasonably possible. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users at mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
