Re: [MacPerl] Frontier/MacPerl dictionary

[Brian "L." Matthews <blm@halcyon.com>]

w e b s l a v e writes:
|Frontier is a very powerful environment, not without it's flaws of course,
|but one of the strengths is it's persistent storage mechanism, the ODB.

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.

Brian

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