Re: RE: PERL?

Say, handling screen forms, sockets and pipes would be considered rather sophisticated IO, don't you think? Generally speaking, PL/SQL can only do simpleton I/O (a.k.a doofus I/O) while perl is much more sophisticated

On 12/08/2003 08:09:25 AM, ryan_oracle_at_cox.net wrote:
> what do you mean by sophisticated I/O?
> >
> > From: "Cary Millsap" <cary.millsap_at_hotsos.com>
> > Date: 2003/12/07 Sun PM 11:59:25 EST
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> > Subject: RE: PERL?
> >
> > You'll get much more comprehensive answers than mine, but a few huge
> > motives for me are.
> >
> >
> >
> > - You can't do I/O-especially sophisticated interactive
> > I/O-conveniently in SQL*Plus or PL/SQL.
> >
> > - More generally, SQL restricts your viewpoint to what's inside
> > the database. As a performance analyst, I need a language in which I can
> > do text processing, mathematical processing, and especially experiments
> > with the same OS calls that Oracle uses. You can even attach directly to
> > the Oracle SGA with Perl, where you can get x$ information without using
> > SQL. (I don't do it, but it can be done.)
> >
> > - Perl regular expression processing is spectacular compared to
> > anything else out there; this is critical for text processing (lexical
> > analysis and parsing).
> >
> > - Perl is more portable, more easily extensible, and better
> > supported with lots of interesting open source libraries than Unix
> > shells.
> >
> >
> >
> > Cary Millsap
> > Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd.
> > http://www.hotsos.com
> >
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> > - Visit www.hotsos.com for schedule details...
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > KENNETH JANUSZ
> > Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 9:34 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> >
> > I've read a lot about PERL on this list. And, I am wondering what can
> > you do with PERL that you cannot do with SQL*Plus, PL/SQL or Unix shell
> > scripts?
> >
> >
> >
> > Any information will be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks much,
> >
> > Ken Janusz, CPIM
> >
> >
> >
>

Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA

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