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Sqlite may be open source, but that doesn't mean the format is easy to parse, and you can't fit sqlite into every device. Besides, we need a format that's easier to read than to write, since you'll read it a lot more than you'll write it. We need something simple, compact (but not TOO compact), and something which you can parse with a few lines of Perl.
I can't think of any case where a Perl interpreter would be smaller or more efficient than Sqlite on an embedded device.






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Sqlite may be open source, but that doesn't mean the format is easy to parse, and you can't fit sqlite into every device. Besides, we need a format that's easier to read than to write, since you'll read it a lot more than you'll write it. We need something simple, compact (but not TOO compact), and something which you can parse with a few lines of Perl.