Re: Procedural Languages

On 5/31/2012 10:52 PM, Chris Travers wrote:
> Minor correction
>
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:57 PM, John Townsend
> <jtownsend(at)advancedformulas(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Fortran was the first computer language for me. (I guess that reveals my age
>> :-) )
> Fortran was my second computer language, but I hated it.
>> PL/pgSQL is easy to learn for me since it is pascal like. It appears this is
>> the one to use, if you want to write maintainable code for others. (Next
>> choice might be Perl*).
>>
>> PL/pgSQL was the choice by Postbooks. Almost 1300 functions (counting
>> triggers) are used for the open source addition. It's a good example of how
>> to do build a nice PG app.
>>
>> But I don't like the environment, namely using Qt and C++. Of course, if you
>> have this environment already setup, and you are a good C++ programmer, then
>> it will not be easy.
>>
>> *Perl was used in SMB Ledger.
> Minor correction:
>
> LedgerSMB uses Perl in the middle layer around the database. All our
> stored procedures are in SQL or PL/PGSQL depending on complexity of
> operations and inputs.
>
> Best Wishes,
> Chris Travers
>
Thanks for the correction. I realized later this might be the case after
the post.

I had previously downloaded SMB for an examination, but did not restore
the database. Therein I would have seen the stored procedures written in
pgSQL.

I hope all continues to go well in your SMB project.

jt