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- Subject: A DBperl Questionnaire
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- Date: 13 Nov 92 14:40:55 GMT
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- The DBperl Group wants to know what the perl community desires in a DB
- interface. Below is a simple questionnaire that will help us get a feel
- for what issues/designs the community deems important.
-
- For those not in the know:
- Perl is an interpreted language with powerful string and list processing
- features developed by Larry Wall that "nicely bridges the functionality
- gap between sh(1) and C." Since relational DB operations are typically
- textually oriented, perl is particularly well-suited to manage the data
- flows. The C source code, which is available free of charge and runs on
- many platforms, contains a user-defined function entry point that permits
- a developer to extend the basic function set of the language. The DBperl
- Group seeks to exploit this capability to provide a portable perl
- interface to a variety of popular RDMS engines by creating a standardized
- set of functions based on the SQL model. Although no commercial vendors
- provide support for perl at this time, the combination of the
- comp.lang.perl newsgroup and an O'Reilly text describing the language has
- historically proved to be more than adequate in this area.
-
- Please send your replies to perldb-interest@vix.com.
-
- 1. Which database version of Perl do you currently use?
-
- 2. Are you happy with the Perl interface to that database?
-
- 3. Which parts of the interface do you particularly like?
-
- 4. Which parts of the interface do you particularly dislike?
-
- 5. Is there anything in one of the other database interfaces that you
- would like to have in yours?
-
- 6. Is there any additional functionality that you would like to have?
-