So what are libraries?
They are nothing but a collection of subroutines that somebody else has
written.
And what do you do if you can't find a function in your library that
does exactly what you need?
You write your own, right?
And by the time you have found the right function in your library you
could have written the 3 lines of code in Basic that do the same thing
already.
I write Databasic code every day and have done so for over 20 years and
hardly ever have use for functions, because if I needed them I would
have written my own library by.
Mecki
On 14/07/2011 02:25, Rob Sobers wrote:
I have to heartily disagree that U2 has a sophisticated business rules
engine. U2 Basic is such a limited language. It barely has functions, and
you have to home brew almost everything.
Microsoft's T-SQL stored procedures are just as horrible to write as U2
Basic programs. As Jeff Atwood put it -- "Stored procedures should be
considered database assembly language." [1] Why do you think Microsoft now
allows you to call CLR code from stored procedures? Because it's so much
more efficient to work with the data (i.e., enforce the business rules) in a
modern language like C# that has *actual libraries* for doing useful things.
I agree that business rules shouldn't be on the client -- but who says they
have to be in the database? Look at the ever-so-popular MVC architecture.
The models (i.e., the code that works with the database and enforces all of
the business rules) are isolated from the views (i.e., the
client/presentation code) entirely.
-Rob
[1]:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/10/who-needs-stored-procedures-anyways.html
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Kevin King<precisonl...@gmail.com> wrote:
+1 for what David said. Yes, there's the "limitation" that BASIC is the
only native supported language (not factoring external connectors), but as
a
language native to the environment, this BASIC is really pretty rich by
comparison to the stored procedure languages of other DBs.
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