[vishnu]

Compared to my more youthful times, I certainly respect sticking with what you know and sticking with older versions of programs. I certainly have some systems that are running for five plus years at this point without a reinstall or major upgrade.

I do have to constantly react to the changes in the climates of things however. For long-term extensibility purposes it is going to be necessary to try to unify as much of our stack as possible. It may take a while for the postgres migration at this point as I am quickly losing my patience with the dev version of the site. If it has to wait it has to wait.

I don't really know that much about object-relational databases, and in general I'm not all that in favor of object oriented programming. I (we) do use C++ for all our programming at my place of employ, but mostly only because of the wonders of the standard template library. We do have some objects but mostly we stick to generic programming in the manner typified by Alexander Stepanov. Like, if you look at my ridiculous blackjack simulation that I posted here way back when, you can see that all the heavy lifting in the code is done by the STL, and there are zero c++ classes. Also, while I'm on the topic, I've since fixed the bugs that were found by jwhat and robespierre thanks for pointing those out guys!

I recently finished a pretty big run of the code and posted about it on Stanford Wong's blackjack site, for anyone who's bored enough to have a look:

https://bj21.com/boards/free/sub_boards/...e=1#unread