One thing to consider with Perl is that perl 5 and perl 6 are totally different beasts.
Perl 6 is built on top of parrot, a general purpose register based virtual machine which is optimized to execute perl and similar languages. There are already a small test language running on top of parrot (though perl 6 itself is still in the design stage). Embedding the parrot engine (which will also run perl 5 as well, and most likely java, javascript, etc) would be the most logical course of action. Then one could simply drop in whatever front-end language support is provided for parrot, and all that would remain would be the language modules you would need in order to interface your script to the SQL engine. There are other possible languages. GNU FORTH would be an excellent choice. It is small, fast, and powerful. It is also pretty easy to mix FORTH syntax with other languages (FORTH basically HAS almost no syntax itself). On Wednesday 03 April 2002 10:15, Russell E Glaue wrote: > Actually, I like this proposal of being able to plug in any language into > MySQL. I also want to make a note that Greg Cope has a very good point. > I believe it to be good to be able to plug in any language, but the mySQL > community may want to make a standard recomendation of a certain language. > And going from what Greg mentioned in an earlier e-mail in this thread, > the embedded language of choice really needs to be a small and compact > language. Perhaps it is feature rich, but still small. > A big language like java or perl will most likely slow down the database. > > What language could MySQL try to standardize on that would not cause the > server to slow down or become bulky in memory? I don't know if Python or > PHP are necessarilly better choices than PERL or Java under these > considerations. I cringe at offering up TCL as an option (don't hit me!). > I might go along with using LISP. > > Does anyone on this list have a suggestion as what might be the best > language to embed into MySQL? Be sure to consider memory efficiency, > threadding, speed of the language, and compactness (compared to code and > library bulkiness). I'd like to hear what other people think? > > As far as creating a language just to embed in MySQL... this may be > tempting, but I think it to be far better to not do this. The problems > with inventing a language just for MySQL is stalness of advancing the > language, and also innovation and optimization. There are already lots of > people in existing communities to improve current program languages. > > -RG > > On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 06:20:41PM -0600, Russell E Glaue wrote: > > > On the mysql-internals mail list we had a thread going about this. I > > > was suggesting something like embedding PERL into MySQL to produce > > > something like PERL/SQL (similar to PL/SQL in oracle). > > > Unfortunately, although promising and liked among people of the > > > list, there are no plan right now to develop anything like > > > this. Atleast no one has taken the initiative to look into this. > > > > Actually, there are plans. I've been in at least 2 discussions (1 was > > in person) about just how it will be done. > > > > The plan, last I heard, is to provide a general API for plugging in a > > language on the back-end. So if you to use Python, you can. If you > > want to use PHP, you can. Java? Probably. And so on. > > > > The only problematic languages are those with threading problems--like > > Perl. > > > > Jeremy > > -- > > Jeremy D. Zawodny, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Technical Yahoo - Yahoo Finance > > Desk: (408) 349-7878 Fax: (408) 349-5454 Cell: (408) 685-5936 > > > > MySQL 3.23.47-max: up 54 days, processed 1,508,672,191 queries (319/sec. > > avg) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble > unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
