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Re^4: Perl Typeless Databaseby tomazos (Deacon) |
on Jul 02, 2005 at 14:09 UTC ( [id://471922]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Of course I don't mean that the database isn't reliable in that sense.
When I speak about reliability, I mean the extent to which the system tolerates a developer or user error. If a developer or user makes a mistake then a less reliable system ungracefully falls over. A reliable system catches the error as soon as possible. One of the advantages of typing is that it catches garbage data earlier, when you try to assign a value of the wrong type. A typless system happily takes the data into the system, causing problems later.
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