On 9/16/08, Martin (OPENGeoMap) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mohit Sindhwani escribió: > > > Jeff Godfrey wrote: > > > >> According to a paper written by Richard Hipp (the creator of SQLite), > >> Tcl is the ideal language. Here's a quote from the mentioned paper: > >> > >> "The increasing popularity of SQLite is seen in the fact that the main > >> website daily serves about a gigabyte of data to around 3000 unique IP > >> addresses. SQLite has been eagerly embraced by PHP, Perl, and Python > >> programmers. What most of these enthusiastic users fail to realize is > >> that SQLite bindings for the three P-languages are an afterthought. > >> SQLite was designed from the beginning to be used with Tcl. Tcl bindings > >> have been in the SQLite core since before version 1.0 and almost half of > >> the SQLite source code base consists of regression test scripts written > >> in Tcl. SQLite wants to be programmed in Tcl, not those other languages." > >> > >> The entire paper can be found here: > >> > >> http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2004/Papers/D.RichardHipp/drh.html > >> > > > > While that's true, Ruby works really well with SQLite! > > > > Ruby rocks. C# rocks. D rocks. I used ruby in a project and i am very > happy. /gem install sqlite3/-ruby ... > This 3 languages are completed from the begining and with different uses. > > For me the universe must be in C and autocreate bindings to other > languages is direct if the C APi is well designed. > http://live.gnome.org/Vala > http://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection > If you design a masterful API in C, you can access to all languages like > JAVA, c#, ruby, python, PERL,D, C++, ... > This is the perfect sample of this API: > http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/2.18/ > This is the perfect sample of a full Object oriented API in C with Gobject: > http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/ > > I doubt SQLite was more apropiate to use in TCL. I see the C API of > SQlite very clean and easy to hack in other languages. > > In my opinion TCL.like perl, is death and sucks in my opinion. > Ofusctated life... > > PD: I was PERL user in the past and i change it for ruby.
ai, ai, ai... words such as "death" and "sucks" in one sentence... fortunately, they are "in your opinion." Fortunately, I won't have to change to Ruby as I am quite happy and comfortable with the language of my choice (which happens to start with P). I reiterate -- the best programming language is the one you are best at. > > Regards > > > Cheers, > > Mohit. > > 9/17/2008 | 12:11 AM. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > sqlite-users mailing list > > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > -- Puneet Kishor http://punkish.eidesis.org/ Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) http://www.osgeo.org/ _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
