Computer Science Canada Text database; Which language? |
| Author: | Vertico [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Text database; Which language? |
I've been trying to keep track of quite a bit of information over the last year on my computer, but it has become very cluttered and I want to make a nice program that will keep this information for me. Pretty much, i plan to make a text database for myself to keep everything in order. I'm not sure what language I should use to write this program and thats why I am asking. I was thinking of doing it in Java, but ruby might be better. Any suggestions with reasoning behind it would be greatly appreciated. By database, i mean a program which will store the information for me in perhaps some .txt files where i can edit, add, remove, view, etc. |
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| Author: | ericfourfour [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Text database; Which language? |
I suggest Ruby because it will take you half the time to program it than with Java. See wtd's rant regarding "alternative" programming languages. Also, Ruby is generally slower at run-time than Java but it shouldn't matter since this is only text. |
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| Author: | wtd [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 6:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Text database; Which language? |
You don't want a flat-file text database. You want a real relational database, but without the hassle of having a server. I suggest SQLite + Ruby. |
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| Author: | Windsurfer [ Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Text database; Which language? |
The question that first comes to my head is "what information is it, and how will you want to access/organize it?" |
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