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Subject: Re: gnoga.com work on freebsd?  anyone got a live site?
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On Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 5:52:33 PM UTC-6, polymorph self wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 22, 2018 at 9:40:19 AM UTC-4, polymorph self wrote:
> > does gnoga kick ass over say yii php?
> > what about vs seaside smalltalk?
> > or swi prolog web?
> > or django?
>=20
> say you wanted to write an online chat site for dating
> date-chat
> using gnoga
> would you use files for persistance?

There's no technical reason you couldn't, given these requirements.

> or is it worth the complexity of postgresql?

That very much depends on less abstract/overview requirements -- if you're =
going to support massive searches, filtering, and the like it makes it more=
 attractive to use a database -- if you're going with a more "bare-bones" t=
here's no reason for any of that.

>=20
> I see from work that updating a database after few years use is sooooo pa=
inful that the app rots because no oen redoes the dataabse the right way

I can empathize; but I think the core thing there is that there's a huge de=
ficit of valuation [culturally speaking] of design -- that's the reason the=
re's "code-a-thon" events and not "design-a-thon" events.