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From: Guy Laden <guy@math.tau.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: Translation into C
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> I'd like to second the notion/motion that database extensions
> would be far more useful than C or C++ code generation. Hooks
> into Oracle, Sybase, Access, Foxpro etc,... would allow the
> best features of the language to be applied to where the real
> data is. I have kloojes setup where foxpro exports flat files
> that icon churns and the output is imported into other databases.
> It would surely be nicer to have one program do it all instead
> of three (export - munge - import).
What language extensions do you have in mind?
For the past year or so I've been using the Icon support for dynamic linking
of C functions (under sunos) to interface to the msql database. Wrapping the
C API that is supplied with msql in a some higher-level icon modules makes
this setup quite convenient to use. I suppose embedding database support
into the language might make some things easier to do but this setup is quite
usable. The Perl community do something similar and it seems to be working
for them as well. (I'm not talking about built-in dbm-file support, which
Unicon has as well).
btw, does Windows icon support dynamic calling of functions in DLL's?
Guy