Good initiative - the more ways to connect, the better, IMHO.
On 26/04/15 23:00, Henrik Sarvell wrote: > Hi list, I'm announcing this at a very early stage, earlier than I > would like to, in case someone else is also thinking about doing a > MySQL wrapper, to avoid duplicate work. > > I'm not doing this because I think that MySQL is in any way a better > alternative than the native DB functionality, rather the opposite. > > The main reasoning is that it might help adoption of the language as > I've come to believe that how the data is stored could be as big a > hurdle to switch as the language switch itself - for many > organisations - if they can keep their data as it is (to begin with) > half the battle might already be won. > > PicoLisp with MySQL is still better than say PHP with MySQL. > > It also helps in migrating from MySQL to the native DB. > > It's all inspired by Alex Williams' nice and instructive use of the > native stuff here: http://aw.github.io/picolisp//2015/02/22/nanomsg/ > > And I couldn't have managed without AB's writeup here: > http://software-lab.de/doc/native.html > > Without further ado: > https://bitbucket.org/hsarvell/ext/src/default/mysql.l?at=default > > Note that you can't just run with the file linked to above, you need > the mysql.so file in the ext/so folder too. > > If no one beats me to it I will do some more work on this one in the > future and will announce here when there's something to show. -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
