Comments on: That’s MeSQL, by the way

By: Arjen Lentz

Arjen Lentz — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:26:22 +0000

Before we all go on believing that everything read online is true… mSQL was not written by Monty at all. It was written by David Hughes of Hughes Technologies, based on the Gold Coast in Australia. World’s apart, except that both David (aka Bambi) and Michael (Monty) are nice people, and Monty based his C API on that of mSQL to gain easy access to the already existing tools and other stuff.

By: Matthew Aslett

Matthew Aslett — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:03:07 +0000

Thanks for the update. Maybe David was just simplifying for the English speakers. In the circumstances, we should probably stick to MySQL.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:59:08 +0000

I have to correct you here!

‘my’ in Scandianvian langages is neither pronounced like English ‘my’ nor ‘me’.

The phonem ‘y’ in those languages has no parallel in English actually! If you know the Swiss/German word ‘müsli’ the sound of ‘ü’ here is much similar to a Scandinavian ‘y’.

Peter
(Danish)

.. and btw: before MySQL there was msql (could we guess that ‘m’ means ‘Michael’/'Monty’ ?). And what do you think Monty’s new ‘Maria’ Engine is named after ??

One day too I will teach you about PPPPL (Peter’s Private Personal Programming language)! One more example of breaking technology named after a person ….