[Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

[Henry Vermaak]

On 17 June 2010 16:43, waldo kitty <wkitty42 at windstream.net> wrote:
>
> i still find it amazing, though, that in today's world, so many opt to use a
> sql database of some kind even for smallish projects where a nice simple
> self-designed binary data file would suffice... in many cases, it is akin to
> swatting a fly with a hydrogen bomb ;)

I still find it amazing, in today's world, that so many opt to
re-invent the wheel.  Why would you design your own buggy binary data
file that only your program can read, when you can use a safe, tested,
fast embedded database?  I hardly call a 500k shared library a
hydrogen bomb.