Flat files! Fuck. Honestly, that explains everything.
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Well databases have structures and are easy to concurrently write to and have all sorts of checking for wackiness of constant input and output and usually work in a client-server manner. A flat file is basically thread888098.txt
Flat files! Fuck. Honestly, that explains everything.
Flat files! Fuck. Honestly, that explains everything.
Bounty Hunter
I liked my answer better. Flatfiles are files that have yet to develop into nice, round, bouncy files; files you need cloth and wire to support.
But yeah. There's always that too.
Flatfiles are messy, bothersome, and impossible to rewrite.
But yeah. There's always that too.
Flatfiles are messy, bothersome, and impossible to rewrite.
Internaut
They're handy if you need to code a user-updatable website for a cheap chap who won't pay for MYSQL support though.
Anything beyond that is... not fun.
Anything beyond that is... not fun.