On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 01:28:58PM +1300, Dru was heard to remark: > I know what you mean. i stopped trying to populate c style structures > from db's, sockets etc a while ago. I didn't like having to write new c > structures for every table, and a couple supporting functions for > mapping values in structure to values in db.
Yes, that is true; simple apps like bugzilla don't do any processing, they simply map db contents to web pages and back. These kinds of apps can be specified in a purely declarative fashion, and someday we may have a new declarative programming language to do this. (That's what I tried to do with DWI/DUI: at its core, it really is a new declarative programming language. Unfortunately, I embedded it in XML. Although XML is superficially declarative, its just plain not human-readable for the most part). But some apps need to do proceedural things, and for these, one needs to have access to a proceedural language, such as C or C++. (or perl or python or java or mono/c#) And for that, you want to have a DB layer that will map SQL tables to objects. (and be multi-user, distributed, yadda yadda). --linas -- pub 1024D/01045933 2001-02-01 Linas Vepstas (Labas!) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key fingerprint = 8305 2521 6000 0B5E 8984 3F54 64A9 9A82 0104 5933 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
