On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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>> It is never the fault of a programming language per se. People with a good
>> understanding of object design will write "object oriented code" in every
>> language, even assembler. People who just don't know what they are doing
>> will write bad code, and the best Pascal compiler in the world won't be
>> able to prevent that.
>
> Yes but I believe even you would agree that their are programming languages
> that are better for certain tasks than others. The use of java as a
> replication engine for PostgreSQL seems, well... incorrect.
We definitely concur with that, which is why we are re-writing it ...
going to Java, as Andrew has mentioned, was *not* a design decision that
we made, but was made for us :(
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