RE: PERL/SQL, again? - Re: Procedures

2002-04-03 Thread Greg_Cope
-Original Message- From: pwxgao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Subject: PERL/SQL, again? - Re: Procedures I have been using languages like Smalltalk, Perl and Java for about xx years. I am a huge fan of putting one in the DB for embedded server procedures. I also beleive the best

Re: PERL/SQL, again? - Re: Procedures

2002-04-03 Thread Russell E Glaue
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. I believe it to be good to be able to plug in any language, but the mySQL community may want to make a standard recomendation of a certain language.

Re: PERL/SQL, again? - Re: Procedures

2002-04-03 Thread Robert Cross
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

Re: PERL/SQL, again? - Re: Procedures

2002-04-03 Thread Tod Harter
One thing to consider with Perl is that perl 5 and perl 6 are totally different beasts. Perl 6 is built on top of parrot, a general purpose register based virtual machine which is optimized to execute perl and similar languages. There are already a small test language running on top of parrot

Re: PERL/SQL, again? - Re: Procedures

2002-04-03 Thread Tod Harter
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

RE: PERL/SQL, again? - Re: Procedures

2002-04-03 Thread Nick Arnett
-Original Message- From: Russell E Glaue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 7:15 AM ... Does anyone on this list have a suggestion as what might be the best language to embed into MySQL? Be sure to consider memory efficiency, threadding, speed of the

Re: PERL/SQL, again? - Re: Procedures

2002-04-03 Thread Colin Faber
my thoughts I would assume a plpgsql solution wouldn't be a bad one, All you would really need is IF ELSEIF ELSE and FOR/WHILE, a way for procedures, triggers, views, etc. to be able to access each other with in the syntax of the language (providing routine/function support) along side the

Re: PERL/SQL, again? - Re: Procedures

2002-04-02 Thread Joel Rees
Russell E Glaue mentioned: On the mysql-internals mail list we had a thread going about this. I was suggesting something like embedding PERL into MySQL to produce something like PERL/SQL (similar to PL/SQL in oracle). Unfortunately, although promising and liked among people of the list,

Re: PERL/SQL, again? - Re: Procedures

2002-04-02 Thread Carsten Gehling
From: Russell E Glaue [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 2:20 AM On the mysql-internals mail list we had a thread going about this. I was suggesting something like embedding PERL into MySQL to produce something like PERL/SQL (similar to PL/SQL in oracle). snip Would anyone on

Re: PERL/SQL, again? - Re: Procedures

2002-04-02 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 06:20:41PM -0600, Russell E Glaue wrote: On the mysql-internals mail list we had a thread going about this. I was suggesting something like embedding PERL into MySQL to produce something like PERL/SQL (similar to PL/SQL in oracle). Unfortunately, although promising