Peter wrote:
> If you don't develop one, how can you really know what a DB is?
> If you don't develop one, all your theory that learnt from university
> are still rubbish.
While hands-on experience may be better than theory *in theory*,
in practice it takes too much time and there are too many gritty details
to distract from the essentials. Theory is often quite sufficient.
Second, if you just want to learn how to do it, performance is
irrelevant, and ease of development everything, right? And that's
one of Java's strongest points.
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