Goodbye TCL

[Mark Harrison]

In comp.lang.tcl Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows at man.ac.uk> wrote:
> Cameron Laird wrote:
> > 'Different way to say this:  "database", in this sense, is a dirty
> > subject, in that it's far more tied to grungy details of specific
> > implementations than the masses generally realize, or than either
> > Python or Tcl, both of which prize purity in their own ways,
> > generally support. A general database abstraction is about as
> > rarefied as a general GUI abstraction.
> 
> I had a quick look into general DB APIs in the past, and the response I
> got from the DB community at the time was "but this doesn't support this
> *vital* feature only implemented in one DB that 0.01% of users really
> need and therefore we could never ever use your proposal for a standard
> API".  It's kind of discouraging.
> 
> FWIW, I think some mostly-common subset of functionality is possible (if
> we assume SQL underneath; without that, you can't get anywhere) and it
> would be enough to get most of the low-end and casual users total
> satisfaction. And maybe this would encourage alteration in the high-end
> interfaces to be more like each other too.
> 
> Donal.
> 

Python has a nice relational database API standard, which
seems to be well implemented across several databases, although
I've only used the postgresql one myself.

http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0249.html

Cheers,
Mark

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Mark Harrison
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