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Subject:    Re: Great Database Minds: PerlDB - A Database Written Entirelyin Perl?
From:       James Maes <jmaes () sportingnews ! com>
Date:       2000-03-23 21:38:15
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Well, I don't remember who started all this, but I would like to get
in.  Has anyone put any code to disk yet, or are we at the birth of a
project? If the first, then is there a server somewhere we we can get a
look at it, or if the lader, how does one (we) start something like
this?






"Gowen, Lee" wrote:
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> Count me in on doing the development work!
> 
>  Lee Gowen
>  Lead Software Engineer
>  US WEST Dex
>  9394 West Dodge Rd
>  Omaha, NE    68114
>  E-mail  : lgowen@inetnebr.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alligator Descartes [mailto:descarte@symbolstone.org]
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 1:27 PM
> To: Andy Duncan; Jeff Zucker; Orlando Andico; dbi-users
> Subject: Re: Great Database Minds: PerlDB - A Database Written Entirely
> inPerl?
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> At 11:09 AM 3/23/00 -0800, Andy Duncan wrote:
> >                Maybe those of us interested in this general concept, a
> Perl
> >Database, should all get together?  It's got to be better than a handful of
> >separate efforts.  Being a technical lightweight myself, all this talk of
> DB v3
> >and Parse::RecDescent is a little over my head, but I can talk a good game
> and
> >chip in the odd thing.
> 
> This is probably a really good thing to do, in my opinion. Python has a
> Python-based
> database system called Gadfly that is really useful. The downside is, of
> course,
> that you need to write Python code, but the ability to ship an executable
> with
> Python embedded that can use a SQL-compliant database without having to
> install
> other software is just invaluable.
> 
> Being able to compile a Perl interpreter into, say, an executable for a
> CD-ROM
> that has a Perl-based database accessible via DBI would just be so useful.
> 
> Not that I'm volunteering, of course!
> 
> >andyd
> 
> A.
> 
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