files

Question

Why are files important in programing languages? If you want to store something is better to use a file rather than a database?

Answer 1

There are some things, which are preferred to be stored in files, like e.g. configuration. You need files for in- and output of various applications, just think of contracts e.g. You store your thesis within a file. Databases in fact are files, if you look at it as a more or less structured information stored in filesystem. It's all about files, if you want more than a simple calculation.

Answer 2

Files are just one of way of saving data, database are another.

Files are easy because the file-system is already there. Database are better in de long run.

I do not favor one above the other