one step beyond!
in my dreams BCNF is just as far as a chap needs to go
somehow these things don't seem so important anymore....
no contract files either....but at least no fan traps
it's almost 20 years since I did any of this in anger so I thought it would be me that's out of date.....au contraire, it's my compiler...seems the world has gone all unicode correct...how to deal with all these multi byte character sets with an ascii based compiler....oh waily waily, seems a replacement unicode upgrade would cost me £500...mmmm
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#61
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#62
Ah, yes, unicode. Its all fun. I used to have a perfectly good SQL parser and execution engine, but it was only 8 bit clean, its a pain. I blame the rest of the world.
What platform and what language are you using the compiler for/with ?
What platform and what language are you using the compiler for/with ?
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#63
windows, sqlite, xml, borland api(object pascal/delphi)
as the sentence travels left to right it gets logarithmically more fun....
but the last api was delphi 7 which is not unicode compliant...the good folks at qbs say I can enter the brave new world for £450+vat or some such....
I have tried to get robust by casting all the xml requests/replies to borlands widestring data type(16 bit char) and thence to string(8 bit) and processing all the forbidden xml chars out..........
it is fun....I don't know why I ever gave it up...snigger
as the sentence travels left to right it gets logarithmically more fun....
but the last api was delphi 7 which is not unicode compliant...the good folks at qbs say I can enter the brave new world for £450+vat or some such....
I have tried to get robust by casting all the xml requests/replies to borlands widestring data type(16 bit char) and thence to string(8 bit) and processing all the forbidden xml chars out..........
it is fun....I don't know why I ever gave it up...snigger
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#65
Very little there is my idea of fun I must admit.windows, sqlite, xml, borland api(object pascal/delphi)
Though I did spend a week in Long Beach once all paid for by Borland, so its not all bad
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#66
moi non plus! but I've started so I'll finishNick wrote: Very little there is my idea of fun I must admit.
as a real OT...what are the options for a linux ide(presumably c++) with a gnome lib, do you know?
when borland were still alive they had a product called kylix, but I now find both they and it are long dead.......
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#67
dBase IV, I remember it well 
So many of my 'customers' had probs with it I finally chucked in the towel and made my own random access files
So many of my 'customers' had probs with it I finally chucked in the towel and made my own random access files
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#68
Well, Eclipse is probably the most used. C++ or Java, possibly Java would be a better choice for this sort of thing.as a real OT...what are the options for a linux ide(presumably c++) with a gnome lib, do you know?
Yep, Kylix was the great white hope when I went to LA.when borland were still alive they had a product called kylix, but I now find both they and it are long dead.......
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and anybody else that might be interested
version 0.8.5 fully functional beta with full help system and eula agreement
description on its own is here:
http://www.vitalstates.org/diy/music/muscat.pdf
please let me know(politely) if it's anywhere near what you wanted/expected.
warning..danger Will Robinson danger.....
if anybody looked at the last version and loaded any data be careful not to overwrite the db file with the empty one conatined in this zip.
**** edited to version 0.8.6 - new version to allow access to musicbrainz database after November 2011 when they require all client systems to identify themselves.....0.8.5 will not work after Nov '11
and anybody else that might be interested
version 0.8.5 fully functional beta with full help system and eula agreement
description on its own is here:
http://www.vitalstates.org/diy/music/muscat.pdf
please let me know(politely) if it's anywhere near what you wanted/expected.
warning..danger Will Robinson danger.....
if anybody looked at the last version and loaded any data be careful not to overwrite the db file with the empty one conatined in this zip.
**** edited to version 0.8.6 - new version to allow access to musicbrainz database after November 2011 when they require all client systems to identify themselves.....0.8.5 will not work after Nov '11
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