Unholy Alliances

chubertdev

Hoooooooooot pocket.

ben_lubar

app for iPhone available at Wal-Mart

How the hell does that work?

dhromed

For example, if you need to store a nested object which structure can vary (let's say it can map to several different subclasses in your code). This would be hell to implement in relations, but super easy as some kind of complex document (xml or json) you store and retrieve as a single value.

@blakeyrat said:

Maybe you want to store what Twitter's API returns verbatim, so if something about it changes you can go back and re-parse previous records.

I accept.

*waves royal hand*

redwizard

@Yamikuronue said:

I did it in perl.

That's all I needed to see. :-)

M_Adams

@Arantor said:

Now do that from an Excel/VBA macro.

Welcome to my particular circle of Hell…

delfinom

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cartman82

No way poop tastes like that!

VinDuv

6 months ago I debugged a web app which was written in C (as CGI programs), without any libraries.
It roughtly went like this:

printf("Content-type: text/html\n\n");
printf("<html>\n");
printf("<head>\n");

The query string parser was pretty horrible, of course.
Debugging each “page” probably took me longer than a complete rewrite in a saner language would have taken (the target system had a working installation of Python with its CGI module, at least)

ben_lubar

Take this like. It'll make you feel better.

HardwareGeek

I think I wrote that.