Re: Perl as alternative to MySQL

2002-03-19 Thread _brian_d_foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Danny Arsenault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please let me know if this is crazy! it is. > I am continually developing a site in Lasso and on their mailing list > someone talked about how they had dispensed with the database backend > altogether by using Lasso

Re: Perl as alternative to MySQL

2002-03-18 Thread hcir
pk has hit the nail on the head i think! >> The reason I was thinking about dispensing with the DB backend is >> because I >> have a very cranky database which is holding information that does not >> need >> to be "dynamic." I have a couple thousand product thumbnails (and this >> number increa

Re: Perl as alternative to MySQL

2002-03-18 Thread Puneet Kishor
Hi Danny, Everyone who would reply to this would have a different opinion... here's mine... On Monday, March 18, 2002, at 01:07 PM, Danny Arsenault wrote: > The reason I was thinking about dispensing with the DB backend is > because I > have a very cranky database which is holding informatio

Re: Perl as alternative to MySQL

2002-03-18 Thread Gregory Cranz
Monday, March 18, 2002 2:07:16 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Perl as alternative to MySQL >> Auto forwarded by a Rule >> > Please let me know if this is crazy! > > I am continually developing a site in Lasso and on their mailing list > someone

Re: Perl as alternative to MySQL

2002-03-18 Thread Ian Ragsdale
On 3/18/02 1:07 PM, "Danny Arsenault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please let me know if this is crazy! > It's not totally crazy. :) > > Now, the folks on the Lasso list claim that this kind of file-based DB thing > is done all the time in Perl, and now that we have Perl on OS X, I wonder if

Re: Perl as alternative to MySQL

2002-03-18 Thread Iago
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Danny Arsenault wrote: > Now, the folks on the Lasso list claim that this kind of file-based DB > thing is done all the time in Perl, and now that we have Perl on OS X, > I wonder if I should try to develop this part of it in Perl rather > than learn MySQL, which seems a lot

Perl as alternative to MySQL

2002-03-18 Thread Danny Arsenault
Please let me know if this is crazy! I am continually developing a site in Lasso and on their mailing list someone talked about how they had dispensed with the database backend altogether by using Lasso to read text files. This idea intrigues me. The reason I was thinking about dispensing with