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Postings from March 2000
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Joseph N. Hall wrote: > (1) DBI is becoming one of the most popular applications for Perl. My > requests for DBI included in Perl training have become incredibly > more frequent during the past year. Part of the reason for that is that DBI is very well designed. Its API is consistent and full-featured in a way that very few others are. > (2) DBI is convenient to use but Perl still lacks the near-total > convenience of languages that support full embedded SQL. No language I know of "really" has embedded SQL. What they have is a preprocessor that turns some ESQL syntax into real code. If you like that kind of thing, why not follow their lead? I imagine that cooking up an ESQL to DBI translator wouldn't be all that hard. > DBI isn't exactly hard to use, but again, it isn't as stupid simple > EASY as other languages that support real embedded SQL. Highly debateable. Most of my difficulty in learning to use DBI is actually learning SQL. Once I groked SQL, DBI was a snap. > (I no longer receive p5p after having been bounced off the list during > a DNS outage and not bothering to resubscribe, so please cc me any > messages you think I should read.) Unacceptable. But, then, you probably knew that. This is basic netiquette in the clasic USENET sense. -sam