From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Feb 15 6: 3:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pc1-dale5-0-cust136.not.cable.ntl.com (pc1-dale5-0-cust136.not.cable.ntl.com [80.1.76.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EB2AA37B416 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 06:03:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 14779 invoked from network); 15 Feb 2002 14:03:02 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO matt.thebigchoice.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Feb 2002 14:03:02 -0000 Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:03:02 +0000 From: Matt H To: "Nora Schram (Planet)" Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: First impressions of freebsd 4.5 Message-Id: <20020215140302.4ed1d9f6.matt@proweb.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <005e01c1b611$f1126b60$0300a8c0@cb03> References: <005e01c1b611$f1126b60$0300a8c0@cb03> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:14:26 +0100 "Nora Schram (Planet)" wrote: > Hello all, hello > Now my questions: > 1. I have a lot of experience with DOS C application development (Raima > Data Manager and C-Scape windowing library). After experimenting with > Delphi and VBasic I definitely decided I do NOT want to program for > Windows. So, if anybody can just put me on the right track to a good > database system and a development system it would help me very much. > python would make a good platform for your developments it even has an "in memory" sql server module, Gadfly, by using that you won't have to install & maintain a seperate SQL server for most data though, an sql server is a sledgehammer, you could most probably get away with formatted plain text files and the directory tree. I'm in thr process of moving my MySQL driven website to text files in directories and my codebase is actually shrinking! matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message