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Fix typo "gentlemen" -> "gentleman".

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@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Okay, now see that other repository by the bar? The one who's always posting sel
He's not the kind of open source that says "if you found a problem, just make a pull request". No way. If you do that, SQLite literally won't even use it. He'll rewrite the whole thing from scratch without breaking a sweat. Well, because it's the right thing to do! To maintain the purity of the public domain and everything. You can scrape Stack Overflow alllllll you like and you won't find a single line that's been copied into the SQLite source. That's for children, and children don't know how to run a business with projections to 2050 the way SQLite does.
And the docs. Wow the docs. I'll text you the link later, you've **got** to check them out. Not only are the docs backed by an SQLite instance on a shared VM with twenty-three others that STILL maintains a system load below 0.1 -- because SQLite is a gentlemen and that's what gentlemen do -- but the tone throughout the whole thing is just dripping with confidence but, like, also humility. Is that an oxymoron or something? Who cares. Like there's a whole section telling you when NOT to use SQLite and, turns out, SQLite is still pretty much always awesome. Not like those desperate, insecure modules that gotta sound like they're made of pixie unicorn dust just to get your attention. Or even worse is when they're backed by a proprietary web service. Um, no thanks! Don't you know you're competing with an in-process database here? You can literally even download the support forum to read through it offline, that's how independent SQLite is. And just check the page source when you're reading the docs. First time I did I was like "whaaaat! where's all the javascript!! isn't this the modern web!!" you know what I mean? No way. SQLite's old school. I bet he gets his B-Trees properly tailored and everything. Mmmm, how I'd like to see that! So lean but still *sooo* powerful. What a hunk. Oh and those properly SVGed railroad graphs, the ones that even work with ctrl+f? Now those have saved my bacon more times I'd care to admit. Speaking of old school, take a look at the comments inside the amalgamation sometime. I mean of course they're exemplary, but notice anything about the punctuation? Wow, what a throwback.
And the docs. Wow the docs. I'll text you the link later, you've **got** to check them out. Not only are the docs backed by an SQLite instance on a shared VM with twenty-three others that STILL maintains a system load below 0.1 -- because SQLite is a gentleman and that's what gentlemen do -- but the tone throughout the whole thing is just dripping with confidence but, like, also humility. Is that an oxymoron or something? Who cares. Like there's a whole section telling you when NOT to use SQLite and, turns out, SQLite is still pretty much always awesome. Not like those desperate, insecure modules that gotta sound like they're made of pixie unicorn dust just to get your attention. Or even worse is when they're backed by a proprietary web service. Um, no thanks! Don't you know you're competing with an in-process database here? You can literally even download the support forum to read through it offline, that's how independent SQLite is. And just check the page source when you're reading the docs. First time I did I was like "whaaaat! where's all the javascript!! isn't this the modern web!!" you know what I mean? No way. SQLite's old school. I bet he gets his B-Trees properly tailored and everything. Mmmm, how I'd like to see that! So lean but still *sooo* powerful. What a hunk. Oh and those properly SVGed railroad graphs, the ones that even work with ctrl+f? Now those have saved my bacon more times I'd care to admit. Speaking of old school, take a look at the comments inside the amalgamation sometime. I mean of course they're exemplary, but notice anything about the punctuation? Wow, what a throwback.
Now, it's been a long time since one-liners were in fashion. I mean it's so eighties. Like leg warmers. Most of the time, I hear a one-liner, and I'm like, *come on Schwarzenegger stop it already*. But SQLite just pulls it off somehow. "Small. Fast. Reliable. Choose any three." Now THAT'S a timeless line. If every program was even 5% of what SQLite is, the world'd be a better place. Oh! Shhh! He's coming this way!