Re: Pro*C vs. PL/SQL

Garth Kennedy wrote:
> a mix of PRO*C and PL/SQL would be suggested. There is probably
> I/O and File activity in the existing application that will
> need to remain, also text formating, all of which are not
> so easy in straight PL/SQL.

as to I/O and File activity, while that used to be awkward in straight PL/SQL, in PL/SQL v 2.3 (with the 7.3 server) one can do file i/o via the utl_file package

as to your other argument in favor of Pro*C, do you really think text formatting is easier in C than in PL/SQL? only if you make use of specialized c code for text-formatting and it's just as easy to do the same thing with pl/sql, i think.

  thomas   

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