Re: [MacPerl] Frontier / AppleScript / Perl comparison chart

[Christophe Pettus <xof@blowfish.com>]

At 12:59 PM -0700 6/25/98, Peter Prymmer wrote:
>Q: While not "built-in" does the Storable module provide an "object database"
>equivalent?

It depends on how strictly you wish to define "built-in."  Frontier's whole
programming model is built around a hierarchical table structure, so it is
truly built-in.  Calling it an "object database" is tremendously
misleading, though (even though Userland calls it that, too); it's no more
of an "object" database than any traditional flat file manager is.  It's
handy, but I think that things like Storable and ML hashes are just as
capable.

--
Christophe, Fish Head, Blowfish <xof@blowfish.com>



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