Bojidar Dimitrov asked:
>
> So, anyhow, the question stays. Is it worth it getting MySQL and Perl
> to run on my Win98 machine for the purpose of doing what I have in
> mind. Does Perl have a nice DB API? Does anyone have code examples of
> DB access using Perl?
>
> I can easily do the same thing using C++ and MS Access, but I am an
> anti-Microsoft creature by default.
Perl has a perfectly usable DB API, and works very well with MySQL.
I have several examples.
But before you get too excited, you might want to take a closer
look at the MySQL licensing conditions. They are even more anti-
Microsoft than you are; MySQL is free on Unix, but costs money if
you want to use it on a Microsoft operating system.
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