Small. Fast. Reliable.
Choose any three.
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  example to illustrate the ideas.  But you should not read this
  article as advocacy of TCL or SQLite.  (I often advocate both,
  just not here.)  TCL and SQLite are used here merely to illustrate
! the ideas.  I leave it to you, gentle reader, to translations
  these ideas into forms more suitable to whatever languages or
  database engines you prefer.
  
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  example to illustrate the ideas.  But you should not read this
  article as advocacy of TCL or SQLite.  (I often advocate both,
  just not here.)  TCL and SQLite are used here merely to illustrate
! the ideas.  I leave it to you, gentle reader, to translate
  these ideas into forms more suitable to whatever languages or
  database engines you prefer.