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Re: Scheme is too complicated


Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de> writes:

 > hjstein@bfr.co.il (Harvey J. Stein) writes:
 > 
 > | One interface I'm familiar with is the one which makes an underlying
 > | database file look like an associative array (aka hash table).
 > 
 > Consider a SQL query which returns more data than your computer has
 > memory. I don't think that you will find a useful implementation that
 > let's the result look like a hash table.

Which is why I asked about other interfaces.

-- 
Harvey J. Stein
BFM Financial Research
hjstein@bfr.co.il