Russell E Glaue wrote:
>Actually, I like this proposal of being able to plug in any language into
>MySQL. I also want to make a note that Greg Cope has a very good point.
>And going from what Greg mentioned in an earlier e-mail in this thread,
>the embedded language of choice really needs to be a small and compact
>language. Perhaps it is feature rich, but still small.
>A big language like java or perl will most likely slow down the database.
Couldn't agree more. After all, there'll be some folk who would probably
really
like to use VB-4-Apps, (not me I hasten to add!). With a scripting language
API you're free to choose the language that suits you and the job in hand.
Now
that'd be a good feature to hang over SQLserver, Oracle, DB2, et al.
>What language could MySQL try to standardize on that would not cause the
>server to slow down or become bulky in memory?
How about shell scripting languages, like the ones in ksh, bash, etc? Might
be too *nix-centric to suit the Wintel crowd, (if so apologies), and
probably
doesn't thread too well, (no idea - anyone care to enlighten me?).
After all look at PL/SQL, it doesn't have a whole lot of
bells-and-whistles, but
it has enough to do the job. So maybe that's a recommendation to keeping
whatever
it finally ends up as "feature tight". If this becomes a serious feature,
how about
asking the users what they need, (functions), as opposed to what they'd
like (fancy
GUI's etc). That way we get a scripting system that's 'focussed'.
>As far as creating a language just to embed in MySQL... this may be
>tempting, but I think it to be far better to not do this.
Agree totally, the world needs yet another great programming language like
the
proverbial hole in the head, not even that keen on C#.
(Oh, and please no Java either, old guys like me just can't get our heads
round
the almost-C-but-not-quite-ness of it).
Bob Cross.
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