Mike; You missed the point, instead of having MUMPS appologise for its strengths, why not have these other languages put multidimentional sparse arrays into their paradymes. Seems like they are the ones who have made the solutions difficult. It would be easier to build such a MUMPS-based DBI that could be accessed by perl, or python, or php, or you name it than it would be to put such a DBI in these other interfaces. It has been done before with MUMPS Datablades, a proprietary MUMPS DB mapper and traverser callable from most compiled languages. The MUMPS data model is just so much more accessible rather than havingto deal with the keyhole of a DBI.
I am sure that Bob Witkop has some words on this topic. He once attempted to write a C translation of a MUMPS application (and he is no slouch in that arena). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Lieman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 8:37 AM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: Command abbreviations/Re: mpsEdit - IDE for MUMPS GT.M programmers. On 8/15/05, Chris Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > one record at a time. Perhaps the question should be, how can we get MUMPS > data structures into these other languages and make them more > allocate-at-runtime friendly?? They would be stronger for it. > Or "Where's the perl DBI::MUMPS" driver? ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
