I am an avid PERL programmer, I also know java. I cannot completely agree with either of you. However, this debated subject is best discussed in another community. The focus here is what has the necessary abilities/functionality to cause SQL to become a 4th level language in MySQL.
High level features as you two refer to here are great, but i realy don't believe that functionality belongs in an embeded language for MySQL. I believe the most important is sequential conditioning and iterating abilites. And as I mentioed before is common in most all languages. So the next important feature becomes which programming language is light, and memory efficient. -RG On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Tod Harter wrote: > > That assumes you believe the myth that Java is really the language of choice > in the back rooms of large enterprise IT shops. It isn't. In the financial > industry perl is ubiquitous. Upper management will tell you Java is god, but > if you actually look at the deployed systems that are out there doing real > work and being developed, esp the SUCCESSFUL ones, they are mostly written in > perl. > > A few people have actually written articles on this topic, but its not in the > interests of ISV's and system or IT shops marketing arms to promote a free > language that has free tools. > > My team regularly runs rings around groups struggling to do the same stuff > with Java. All our systems are already implemented as stacks of SOAP services > for instance. The Java guys aren't even close to that yet. We can do in a > week what it takes them 3 months to do, and well written perl is every bit as > good as Java (plus perl seems to be 3-4 times faster for most real world > applications). > > On Wednesday 03 April 2002 02:50, pwxgao wrote: > > I have been using languages like Smalltalk, Perl and Java for about 15 > > years. I am a huge fan of putting one in the DB for embedded server > > procedures. I also beleive the best strategic option for MySQL to continue > > its adoption in the Enterprise IT world is to choose Java as this language. > > Perl is great. But so was Smalltalk. We develop everything in our shop now > > in Java. Continuing to leverage Java for server DB prcesure makes sense. > > Using yet another language, even if it is academically better suited, goes > > against the mainstream. > > > > regards, Jon > > This message was posted using eunum --- http://www.cn.eunum.com/ > > To interact with a real-time, threaded interface to this e-mail list, go > > visit the link MySQL below: http://www.cn.eunum.com/discussions/2-261.html > > . > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Before posting, please check: > > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble > > unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
