This is probably a language looking for a purpose before adding it to the core. Here's what I use it for; probably abusively too! Could use untrusted perl to spawn system calls, but shell scripts are much nicer for shell work not to mention transactional updates of structure and control scripts make for minimall impact upgrade periods.
- On demand PDFs as generated by Docbook for offline reports initiated by the database. Ie. Inventory updates to management every N sales made or when stock is running low. - Updating static HTML pages with Docbook HTML output when the stored data changes. - System provisioning initiation. Rollbacks don't work, but it's not really important that things are undone immediatly, just that they're initiated immediatly. Using DB for this removes requirement of middleware. -- Rod Taylor Your eyes are weary from staring at the CRT. You feel sleepy. Notice how restful it is to watch the cursor blink. Close your eyes. The opinions stated above are yours. You cannot imagine why you ever felt otherwise. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
