[gnome-db] Re: GRAND MASTER PLAN

[Dru <andru treshna com>]

Linas Vepstas wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 01:28:58PM +1300, Dru was heard to remark:
>  
>
> > I know what you mean. i stopped trying to populate c style structures 
> > from db's, sockets etc a while ago.  I didn't like having to write new c 
> > structures for every table, and a couple supporting functions for 
> > mapping values in structure to values in db. 
> >    
>
> Yes, that is true; simple apps like bugzilla don't do any processing, 
> they simply map db contents to web pages and back.  These kinds of 
> apps can be specified in a purely declarative fashion, and someday 
> we may have a new declarative programming language to do this.
>
> (That's what I tried to do with DWI/DUI: at its core, it really
> is a new declarative programming language. Unfortunately, I embedded 
> it in XML.  Although XML is superficially declarative, its just plain 
> not human-readable for the most part).
>
> But some apps need to do proceedural things, and for these, one
> needs to have access to a proceedural language, such as C or C++. 
> (or perl or python or java or mono/c#) And for that, you want to 
> have a DB layer that will map SQL tables to objects.  (and be 
> multi-user, distributed, yadda yadda).
>
> --linas
>
>  
You dont need to map to physical c objects. I just have tools for 
linking to other
libraries which contain the methods to be used or link to the other way. 
You dont a full on
C structure for it, i just access in a dataset object ie 
getvalue(obj,field,&variable);