Re: Other precompilers besides Pro*C????

That pre-supposes that everyone has Perl available. In the corporate world we must deal with change-control management, security, standardization and sometimes the limitations of what management will allow. I've been working in the UNIX world since 1994 and I have yet to work in a production environment where Perl is allowed. As a result I must work with "approved" tools such as Pro-C. Management just doesn't trust freeware that has not undergone thorough security testing and they don't want to trust their data to programming languages which don't have an established validation suite or IEEE standards.

Are there other programmers out there who work under similar restrictions?????

Ken

jimstoll_at_my-deja.com wrote:

> We recently did some stuff in Perl that we would've historically done in
> Pro*C - Man! What a difference - it's quick and simple using the Perl
> DBI and DBD-Oracle modules (available at www.perl.com/CPAN). I can see
> where Pro*C might be better than Perl in some cases in terms of speed,
> but it'll be a l-o-n-g time before I choose Pro*C over Perl -
> productivity is orders of magnitude greater! :-)
>
> Might want to check it out!
>
> Jim
>
>
Received on Fri Jul 16 1999 - 06:59:24 CDT