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[Dru]

Linas Vepstas wrote:

>On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 01:28:58PM +1300, Dru was heard to remark:
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>>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. 
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>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.
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>(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).
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>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).
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>--linas
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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);