I think waps was talking about the general continuum of how systems behave towards software engineers.
At one end are systems which are demanding refuseniks, at the other are loosey-goosey, anything-goes systems. It is human nature to find the loosey-goosey system more attractive because it gives immediate positive feedback ("it works!") and conceals negative feedback ("what the hell does that error mean?").
The thing is that RDBMSes are ostensibly meant to be on a stricter end of that continuum. But MySQL directly subverts that presumption, which is the source of a lot of heartache in the longer run.
At one end are systems which are demanding refuseniks, at the other are loosey-goosey, anything-goes systems. It is human nature to find the loosey-goosey system more attractive because it gives immediate positive feedback ("it works!") and conceals negative feedback ("what the hell does that error mean?").
The thing is that RDBMSes are ostensibly meant to be on a stricter end of that continuum. But MySQL directly subverts that presumption, which is the source of a lot of heartache in the longer run.