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Huh, this is a little piece of history I was not aware of. Neat and somewhat helps explain the design philosophy of SQLite knowing that


Semi-related, there’s an anecdote that the InterBase database was selected for use within the M1 Abraham’s tank because it was particularly robust in its implementation.

Apparently an issue with the M1 is that because of the energy produced when the main gun is fired, internal systems may spontaneously reset. So they had to design around that phenomenon through things like robustness and rapid system restart times.


If you want to know more of the origins of SQLite I can highly recommend this episode of the Corecursive podcast

https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/




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