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Re: [Chicken-users] status of chickenlib: build process and mysqlinterf
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Ed Watkeys |
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Re: [Chicken-users] status of chickenlib: build process and mysqlinterface usage sample |
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Wed, 1 Sep 2004 12:47:15 -0400 (EDT) |
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klaus schilling said:
> gian paolo ciceri writes:
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> the technical director of the famous azienda at Milan
> writing financial software based on opensource components
> where I once applied unsuccessfully? So scheme is seen now
> suited for that sort of tasks and may compete with python?
I came to Scheme in general and Chicken in particular because I came to
see it as an almost-Lisp with too much syntax. I guess you can call me
Graham-ian. [http://paulgraham.com/] Of course others do not support this
view of Python. [http://www.prescod.net/python/IsPythonLisp.html]
> wopuld it be hard to provide a generalised sql interface on the lines
> of Perl's DBI/DBD architecture?
> and is the existing interface pure scheme or based on libmysql?
> perl offers for some sql engines both pure perl and lib*sql-based
> drivers, the former allowing to write client codes running on engines
> where the libraries aren't even available, the latter provide more speed.
I would very much like to see a standard interface for talking to
databases. You should check out what Johannes Grødem is doing with his
PostgreSQL interface. He has implemented a very Lisp-y interface that's
very un [JO]DBC-ish. Had has interface not been around, I probably would
have written one that was modeled on JDBC, ODBC, or Perl's DBI. I'm not
saying that's the right thing, but I think people coming from other
languages would find the availability of familiar interfaces nice. Is that
group of people worth considering? (I'm not being sarcastic: I don't
know.)
One area where I've been hassling Johannes is that his interface currently
cannot tell me how many rows were updated as a result of an INSERT,
DELETE, UPDATE, etc. If there were a standard for such things, this
problem would presumably be addressed.
Regards,
Ed
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- Re: [Chicken-users] status of chickenlib: build process and mysql interface usage sample, (continued)
- Re: [Chicken-users] status of chickenlib: build process and mysql interface usage sample, klaus schilling, 2004/09/01
- Re: [Chicken-users] status of chickenlib: build process and mysql interface usage sample, F. Wittenberger, 2004/09/01
- Re: [Chicken-users] status of chickenlib: build process and mysql interface usage sample, gian paolo ciceri, 2004/09/01
- Re: [Chicken-users] status of chickenlib: build process and mysql interface usage sample, Joerg F. Wittenberger, 2004/09/01
- Re: [Chicken-users] status of chickenlib: build process and mysql interface usage sample, Tony Garnock-Jones, 2004/09/01
- Re: [Chicken-users] status of chickenlib: build process and mysqlinterface usage sample, Ed Watkeys, 2004/09/01
- Re: [Chicken-users] status of chickenlib: build process and mysqlinterface usage sample, Tony Garnock-Jones, 2004/09/01
- Re: [Chicken-users] status of chickenlib: build process and mysqlinterface usage sample, Joerg F. Wittenberger, 2004/09/01
- [Chicken-users] Re: status of chickenlib: build process and mysql interface usage sample, Johannes Groedem, 2004/09/01
- Re: [Chicken-users] status of chickenlib: build process and mysql interface usage sample, felix, 2004/09/01
- Re: [Chicken-users] status of chickenlib: build process and mysqlinterface usage sample,
Ed Watkeys <=
- Re: [Chicken-users] status of chickenlib: build process and mysqlinterface usage sample, F. Wittenberger, 2004/09/02
- [Chicken-users] Re: status of chickenlib: build process and mysqlinterface usage sample, Ed Watkeys, 2004/09/01
Re: [Chicken-users] status of chickenlib: build process and mysql interface usage sample, F. Wittenberger, 2004/09/01