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On Mar 1, 1:17=A0pm, Hyman Rosen <hyro...@mail.com> wrote:
> On 3/1/2011 3:47 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>
> > It should serve as a caution against deploying damaging, unsafe and oft=
en
> > useless technologies like RDBMS. There should be no such thing (there
> > definitely exist better approaches to persistence) and no languages lik=
e
> > SQL.
>
> Hmm. The whole world uses C and C++, but that's bad. The whole world
> uses relational databases and that's bad too. Yet somehow the whole
> world seems to get along. Maybe it's just you.

Extrapolating the 2002 NIST study on the cost of software defects, the
whole world "gets along" with a loss of about $350 billion every year
due to buggy software.  By way of comparison, the cost of the entire
Apollo space program, in today's dollars, was about half that amount.