On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/17/2010 12:45 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I don't get it. Why wouldn't you just talk to the db directly with perl's dbi/dbd, replacing both the awk and C parts? I do that all the time. Or was that before dbi - or the dbd you needed?
Mike, you really aren't reading all of what I wrote. Perl itself wasn't available in '91-'92.
I think you are mistaken about that. "Programming Perl", covering version 4 of perl was published in 1991. Check the printing history if you have a newer copy. Perl itself goes back to 1987 or so. I'm pretty sure I wrote things in version 1 downloaded through usenet. Not sure when dbi/dbd came around but before that there were things like oraperl with specific database clients grafted in.
I used Perl4 under DOS to write connective tissue for my business systems in C back in '92. But then, awk under DOS did a lot of help too.