What no-one seems to mention here is the hell that Microsoft unleashed with MSDOS/WIndows and the associated segmentation problems with coding on them. A work colleague told me about it in early 93 and I gave him a hard drive and he used 32 (IIRC) floppies to install Yggdrasil on it with a .95 kernel on it. My 50Mhz 486 suddenly became a computer I could write code on that would not mysteriously misbehave and the X window meant my monitor was 4 times larger. I worked out how to install it on a 16Mhz 386 machine that I set to self test and forgot about for over 6 months until one day I found it still running in the depths of my attic, On turning the monitor I was amazed to discover there were no faults!
I had been a Windows NT beta tester but I dropped MS soon after.
As someone who came (back) to databases after living in the OO world I've found the judicious use of stored procedures means you can change the database structure without changing the code that accesses it and that can make life so much easier. And I really mean easier! SqlLite is OK for storing data but is not really a relational database IMHO. Postgres went one step to far and made procedures over-loadable and the last time I went near it that made it nearly unusable as a result.
Maria (and MySql) do the job without needing you to write your own belt and braces.
What no-one seems to mention here is the hell that Microsoft unleashed with MSDOS/WIndows and the associated segmentation problems with coding on them. A work colleague told me about it in early 93 and I gave him a hard drive and he used 32 (IIRC) floppies to install Yggdrasil on it with a .95 kernel on it. My 50Mhz 486 suddenly became a computer I could write code on that would not mysteriously misbehave and the X window meant my monitor was 4 times larger. I worked out how to install it on a 16Mhz 386 machine that I set to self test and forgot about for over 6 months until one day I found it still running in the depths of my attic, On turning the monitor I was amazed to discover there were no faults!
I had been a Windows NT beta tester but I dropped MS soon after.