How the SQLite virtual machine works

Re:How the SQLite virtual machine works by simlevesque on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @12:13PM (#32752531)

You may already know but it's SQL-ite (sequel-ite), like graphite, dynamite, sulfite.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ite

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Re:How the SQLite virtual machine works by srcreigh on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @12:20PM (#32752638)

Not even Sequel-ite. But S.Q.L.-ite. That's how Dr Hipp says it, anyways.

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Re:How the SQLite virtual machine works by sgbeal on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @01:42PM (#32753678)

FWIW... i've been in Richard's presence several times when he was asked how to pronounce it by various people and he's invariably answered, "pronounce it however you like!" (i belong to the ess-queue-lite school of thought.)

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Re:How the SQLite virtual machine works by dec0dedab0de on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @07:37PM (#32758790)

I love when projects have cute puns in the name. I always am sure to correct people so they don't miss out on the fun. Luckily most developers are pedantic and like language enough that they don't get too annoyed with me. Same thing applies to PostgreSQL, it drives me nuts that sqlalchemy is not sqlchemy.

completely off topic at this point, but Jim Cornette reading paid advertisements for codecademy was very funny during the pandemic. He insisted on pronouncing it code-cademy while his co-host tried to correct him.

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Re:How the SQLite virtual machine works by avgcorrection on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @05:26PM (#32757181)

Such ambigious names remind of “Rust”. It’s such an um-actually name (um actually it’s not first and foremost about oxidization it’s about fungi…)

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Re:How the SQLite virtual machine works by randomdata on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @09:26PM (#32759830)

> it’s not first and foremost about oxidization it’s about fungi…

Um, actually this[1] suggests that it originally wasn't about anything other than seeming like a good name and that any deeper explanation that has been given was made up. Of course, by the same token, "it seemed like a good name" could have also been made up. But it appears that the team eventually embraced it in the oxidization[2] sense.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/27jvdt/internet_archa...

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680521

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Re:How the SQLite virtual machine works by avgcorrection on Thursday September 08, 2022 @02:56PM (#32770321)

Um actually I believe more in community consensus with regards to naming provenance as opposed to authorial intent

ad nauseam

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Re:How the SQLite virtual machine works by randomdata on Friday September 09, 2022 @11:22AM (#32780317)

Fair, but community consensus is that of oxidization to reflect how the Rust community comes in, takes over, and ruins every discussion about programming by finding some way to mention Rust. It is very much a virtual oxidization process.

Case in point: This discussion was originally about SQLite.

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Re:How the SQLite virtual machine works by EGreg on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @05:54PM (#32757508)

I had no idea! I was sure it was “SQL Lite” ever since I heard about it a decade ago. Its support for mostly text strings while MySQL and Postgres supported a myriad types made me think it’s just a small embedded “lite” library for when you wanted to bundle a mostly SQL database with your app lol

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Re:How the SQLite virtual machine works by geewee on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @01:55PM (#32753856)

Huh, I had no idea!

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