RE: Programming languages that make DBA's lives easier

> Now this thread has gone on for a while so its time for my
> contribution
> :-). PL/SQL is such a necessary although pedestrian language that its
> not interesting. Of the scripting languages TCL, PERL, and Python all
> include facilities for embedding them into other code or adding other
> code to them. What we should do is mount an Open Source project to
> embed Perl and TCL into Python so that we could create one large
> abomination in which any syntax or facility that pleases us could be
> used. Concealing your intellectual property would be simple. Write
> whatever suites you at the time, no one, not even you, will be able to
> figure out what you wrote after you've been away for it a week.

A week? All I need is a night at the pub to make my code unreadable ...

(mmm, maybe I shouldn't have admitted that in public :-) )

Ciao
Fuzzy
:-)

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