On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 11:09:27AM +0100, C. Gatzemeier was heard to remark: > Am Montag, 1. M?rz 2004 17:06 schrieb Linas Vepstas: > > > Its not cool to hide SQL from the API. Well, it is, but that's only > > because SQL is broken. Here's how I would like SQL to work: > > I really like that idea of a SQL aware application (layer). > > Thank you for giving a nice example what dwi/dui is all about.
Actually, that is what "qof" is all about. dwi/dui is something else again; we'll save that for another day. > I wouldn't say > SQL is broken though, it's quite ok for database queries, Well, yes, OK, its not SQL that's broken; its that there are no client-side sql parsing tools that can be used to map sql statements onto C objects (or java classes or python objects....) But you got the point! --linas -- pub 1024D/01045933 2001-02-01 Linas Vepstas (Labas!) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key fingerprint = 8305 2521 6000 0B5E 8984 3F54 64A9 9A82 0104 5933 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
