Re: [MacPerl] Frontier/MacPerl dictionary

[w e b s l a v e <PPRODOEHL@qgraph.com>]

>There are plenty of persistent storage mechanisms available in or for
>perl. DBM is built in, and off the top of my head, there's MLDBM,
>FreezeThaw, and Data::Dumper on CPAN, and I'm sure there are some I
>don't know about. And of course there's DBI, which provides a nice
>interface to DBMS' like Oracle.
>
>While some may consider a built in object database a stength, I consider
>it a weakness, because you're stuck with Frontier's idea of what an
>ODB should be, and with their implementation. With perl, you've got at
>least 4 choices, for all of which the source code is freely available,
>plus you can always roll your own if none are close to what you need.


This is good to know, and something I'll have to look into. Maybe it's a
perception thing. People always complained the Frontier's ODB was hard
for beginners to learn. But I thought it was easy, because it was 'just
there'  and everything relied on it. Rolling my own sounds a little too
daunting, and I'm assuming even just using something like DBM may prove
to be a steep learning curve for some (ok, me ;)

And while I think freely available source code is a great thing, to
many users it is probably about as useful as those AOL cd's...


Pete


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