[MacPerl] Re: DBI reference in O'Reilly MySQL/mSQL book

[Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>]

On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 02:16:10PM +0100, descarte@symbolstone.org wrote:
> 
> > > > "DBD/DBI stands for 'DataBase Dependent/DataBase Independent'."
> > 
> > I continue to be amazed that authors and publishers of books that
> > discuss the Perl DBI don't ask me to even do a simple read-though.
> > 
> > The lack of _any_ accurate books on the DBI was one of the main
> > motivations for helping to write one.
> > 
> > Anyway, the official interpretation is:
> > 
> >   DBI = DataBase Interface
> >   DBD = DataBase Driver
> 
> Just to confuse matters, I tend to start by saying the above is what it
> stands for, but can be easily remembered ( if you're having trouble! )
> by ``DataBase Independent'' and ``DataBase Dependent'' which helps describe
> the actual underlying architecture.

That's cute.

> > > According to a quasi-offical web page at:
> > > 
> > >   http://www.symbolstone.org/technology/perl/DBI/
> > > 
> > > The author of DBI had this to say (without mentioning DBI explicitly :):
> > 
> > That's a very old quote since before the DBperl effort was renamed DBI.
> > It should be updated to something like:
> 
> Updated now. You do realise, Tim, that I've been waiting for that new quote
> from you for years now? :-)

Something very like that has been in the DBI.pm pod docs for ages :-)
I've updated it now to be exactly like that.

Tim.

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