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> From: Russell E Glaue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 7:15 AM
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> 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?
I do a lot of prototyping, so development time is my top priority. Perl
would be fine, but I'd prefer Python.
> 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.
Read my lips -- no new languages. Well, I'm partly kidding. But I would be
unhappy with a new language if it were the only thing MySQL supported. A
new language *in addition* to Perl and/or Python might be useful, but I'd
want to see some darn good reason for it to exist.
The area where I could see productivity rising immensely would be tools that
made user interface development for MySQL database faster. I'm not sure a
new language is needed, but tools that would make it very simple to create a
basic layout for a table, then modify it easily (remove unneeded fields,
make some read-only, turn ENUMs (oh heavens, I almost let the spell checker
turn that into "Enemas!") into pull-downs, etc.), would be terrific.
Finally, I have to give lip service to Java, at least. It is so widely used
that if I were wearing my product manager hat, my prejudice would be to
integrate it as thoroughly as possible. But I haven't touched Java much in
the last few years, so I don't even know what the state of its relationship
with MySQL is.
Nick
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