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Re:Things I wished more developers knew about databases by acdha on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @04:47PM (#22950016)
That's a charming belief about C which is only true if you work on the same operating system, processor, and don't do anything complicated. If those are not true, as I've experienced many times over the years, you will learn otherwise about things like differences in floating point behaviour, memory allocation and access patterns, which filesystem and/or locking semantics, etc.

In other words, it's about as true as it is for CSS and SQL, where that kind of simple use is also stable.

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Re:Things I wished more developers knew about databases by fools on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @04:49PM (#22950034)
Yes, I write fairly boring applications. But the point is that C is mostly cross-platform for those boring applications, whereas the the "cross-platformness" of CSS and SQL fall apart for even the simplest of tasks.
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Re:Things I wished more developers knew about databases by acdha on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @04:52PM (#22950072)
Again, I think you're viewing this through the lens of relative experience. I have seen tons of C code which required substantial fixes to work portably (bonus points when this was exploitable) and I have plenty of CSS and SQL which hasn't had to be touched in years.
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