Re: [HACKERS] Inprise/Borland releasing Interbase as Opensource

> At 02:50 PM 1/4/00 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> >Another _big_ issue is how clean the code is.  MySQL, for example,
> >probably loses tons of people because their code is so poorly designed,
> >and just plain ugly to me.
> 
> I'll have to say that the Postgres code's quite easy to follow, at
> least at the "grasp-the-big-picture" level at which I've been reading
> it on a casual, off-and-on basis.  Understanding it well enough to
> contribute - well, that's another issue 'cause by its nature it is
> a fairly complex beast!  

Totally true.  Education is very important, and clean coding helps with
that. 

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