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On Saturday 03 July 2010 19:33:44 Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message , Nobody wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:30:36 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> >>> Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API. What
> >>> makes databases so special that they need a string-command b
In message , Nobody wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:30:36 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>>> Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API. What
>>> makes databases so special that they need a string-command based API?
>>
>> HTML is also effectively a string-based API.
>
On 7/1/10 5:11 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
Stephen Hansen wrote:
The quote does not deny the power of regular expressions; it challenges
widely held assumption and belief that comes from *somewhere* that they
are the best way to approach any problem that is text related.
Well, that assumption comes
On 7/1/10 3:03 AM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
Re is part of the python standard library, for some purpose I guess.
No, *really*?
So all those people who have been advocating its useless and shouldn't
be are already too late?
Damn.
Well, there goes *that* whole crusade we were all out on.
Stephen Hansen wrote:
> The quote does not deny the power of regular expressions; it challenges
> widely held assumption and belief that comes from *somewhere* that they
> are the best way to approach any problem that is text related.
Well, that assumption comes from historical unix usage wher
Stephen Hansen wrote:
On 6/30/10 11:58 PM, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:14:38 +, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
On Tue, 2010-06-29, Stephen Hansen wrote:
There's nothing silly about it.
It is an exaggeration though: but it does represent a g
On 6/30/10 11:58 PM, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:14:38 +, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
On Tue, 2010-06-29, Stephen Hansen wrote:
There's nothing silly about it.
It is an exaggeration though: but it does represent a good thing to
keep in mi
On Wed, 2010-06-30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:14:38 +, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2010-06-29, Stephen Hansen wrote:
>>> On 6/29/10 5:41 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
Nobody wrote:
>> And what about regular expressions?
>
> What about them? As the saying
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:14:38 +, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-29, Stephen Hansen wrote:
>> On 6/29/10 5:41 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
>>> Nobody wrote:
>>>
> And what about regular expressions?
What about them? As the saying goes:
Some people, when confronted with
Terry Reedy wrote:
On 6/30/2010 8:22 AM, Nobody wrote:
I've noticed over the years a significant anti-RE sentiment in the
Python community.
IMHO, the sentiment isn't so much against REs per se, but against
excessive or inappropriate use. Apart from making it easy to write
illegible code, they
On 6/30/2010 8:22 AM, Nobody wrote:
I've noticed over the years a significant anti-RE sentiment in the
Python community.
IMHO, the sentiment isn't so much against REs per se, but against
excessive or inappropriate use. Apart from making it easy to write
illegible code, they also make it easy t
On 6/30/10 7:14 AM, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
On Tue, 2010-06-29, Stephen Hansen wrote:
On 6/29/10 5:41 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
Nobody wrote:
And what about regular expressions?
What about them? As the saying goes:
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think
"I know, I'll u
On Tue, 2010-06-29, Stephen Hansen wrote:
> On 6/29/10 5:41 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
>> Nobody wrote:
>>
And what about regular expressions?
>>>
>>> What about them? As the saying goes:
>>>
>>> Some people, when confronted with a problem, think
>>> "I know, I'll use regular expressions."
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:41:03 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
>> > And what about regular expressions?
>>
>> What about them? As the saying goes:
>>
>> Some people, when confronted with a problem, think
>> "I know, I'll use regular expressions."
>> Now they have two problems.
>
> That's s
On Jun 28, 3:07 am, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:02:57 -0700, Stephen Hansen
> declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:
>
> > (This is an area where parametrized queries is even more important: but
> > I'm not sure if MySQL does proper prepared queries and cach
On 6/29/10 5:41 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
Nobody wrote:
And what about regular expressions?
What about them? As the saying goes:
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think
"I know, I'll use regular expressions."
Now they have two problems.
That's silly. RE is a
Nobody wrote:
> > And what about regular expressions?
>
> What about them? As the saying goes:
>
> Some people, when confronted with a problem, think
> "I know, I'll use regular expressions."
> Now they have two problems.
That's silly. RE is a good tool. Like all good tools
Owen Jacobson wrote:
> However, not every programming language has
> the kind of structural flexibility to do that well: a library similar
> to SQLalchemy would be incredibly clunky (if it worked at all) in,
say,
> Java or C#, and it'd be nearly impossible to pull off in C.
I guess you've ne
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:30:36 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API. What
>> makes databases so special that they need a string-command based API?
>
> HTML is also effectively a string-based API.
HTML is a data format. The sane way to
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:07:29 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> Coding for something like a DBTG network database did not allow for
> easy changes in queries... What would be a simple join in SQL was
> traversing a circular linked list in the DBTG database my college
> taught. EG: loop get nex
In message
<14e44c9c-04d9-452d-b544-498adfaf7...@d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>, Carl
Banks wrote:
> Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API. What
> makes databases so special that they need a string-command based API?
HTML is also effectively a string-based API. And what a
Carl Banks writes:
> On Jun 27, 8:33 pm, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Carl Banks writes:
> > > I'm disappointed, usually when you sit on your reinforced soapbox and
> > > pretense the air of infinite expertise you at least use reasonable
> > > logic.
> >
> > Kindly stop inventing straw men to attack;
On Jun 27, 9:02 pm, Stephen Hansen wrote:
> On 6/27/10 8:48 PM, Carl Banks wrote:
>
> > I don't know the exact details of all of these, but I'm going to opine
> > that at least some of these are easily expressible with a function
> > call API. Perhaps more naturally than with string queries. For
On Jun 27, 8:33 pm, Ben Finney wrote:
> Carl Banks writes:
> > I'm disappointed, usually when you sit on your reinforced soapbox and
> > pretense the air of infinite expertise you at least use reasonable
> > logic.
>
> Kindly stop inventing straw men to attack; I deny the position you're
> painti
On 2010-06-28 00:02:57 -0400, Stephen Hansen said:
On 6/27/10 8:48 PM, Carl Banks wrote:
I don't know the exact details of all of these, but I'm going to opine
that at least some of these are easily expressible with a function
call API. Perhaps more naturally than with string queries. For
ins
On Jun 27, 8:52 pm, Stephen Hansen wrote:
> Then there's the type of SQL that results in DBA's having jobs-- and
> deservedly so. Its *really* a very flexible and powerful language
> capable of doing quite a lot to bend, flex, twist, and interleave that
> data in the server while building up a res
On 6/27/10 8:48 PM, Carl Banks wrote:
I don't know the exact details of all of these, but I'm going to opine
that at least some of these are easily expressible with a function
call API. Perhaps more naturally than with string queries. For
instance, set operations:
query1 = rdb_query(...)
query
On 6/27/10 7:51 PM, Carl Banks wrote:
I'm not the biggest expert on SQL ever, but the only thing I can think
of is expressions. Statements don't express anything very complex,
and could straightforwardly be represented by function calls.
See, there's really two kinds of SQL out there.
There's
On Jun 27, 8:19 pm, Owen Jacobson wrote:
> On 2010-06-27 22:51:59 -0400, Carl Banks said:
> > On Jun 27, 3:20 pm, Roy Smith wrote:
> >> In article
> >> <14e44c9c-04d9-452d-b544-498adfaf7...@d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>,
> >> Carl Banks wrote:
>
> >>> Seriously, almost every other kind of library
Carl Banks writes:
> On Jun 27, 4:35 pm, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Carl Banks writes:
> > > Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API.
> >
> > Except for the huge number that deal with text protocols or languages.
>
> No, not really. Almost all types of libraries have binary
On 2010-06-27 22:51:59 -0400, Carl Banks said:
On Jun 27, 3:20 pm, Roy Smith wrote:
In article
<14e44c9c-04d9-452d-b544-498adfaf7...@d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>,
Carl Banks wrote:
Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API. What
makes databases so special that they
On 2010-06-27 22:51:59 -0400, Carl Banks said:
On Jun 27, 3:20 pm, Roy Smith wrote:
In article
<14e44c9c-04d9-452d-b544-498adfaf7...@d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>,
Carl Banks wrote:
Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API. What
makes databases so special that they
On Jun 27, 3:20 pm, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article
> <14e44c9c-04d9-452d-b544-498adfaf7...@d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>,
> Carl Banks wrote:
>
>
>
> > Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API. What
> > makes databases so special that they need a string-command based API?
>
On Jun 27, 4:35 pm, Ben Finney wrote:
> Carl Banks writes:
> > Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API.
>
> Except for the huge number that deal with text protocols or languages.
No, not really. Almost all types of libraries have binary APIs,
including those that deal wi
Carl Banks writes:
> Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API.
Except for the huge number that deal with text protocols or languages.
> What makes databases so special that they need a string-command based
> API?
Because SQL is a text language.
--
\ “In t
In article
<14e44c9c-04d9-452d-b544-498adfaf7...@d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>,
Carl Banks wrote:
> Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API. What
> makes databases so special that they need a string-command based API?
> How about this instead (where this a direct binary i
On Jun 24, 6:02 pm, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article ,
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
> > I construct ad-hoc queries all the time. It really isn’t that hard to do
> > safely. All you have to do is read the documentation
>
> I get worried when people talk about how easy it is to do something
> safel
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