[Info-vax] Oracle Database vs Oracle/Rdb

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/24/2019 7:39 AM, Neil Rieck wrote:
> Has anyone here played with Python on any OS?

I have used it a tiny bit.

Rather unusual language.

But pretty cool.

>                                                 Python has builtin
> support to easily connect to MySQL or MariaDB.

Are you sure about that?

I thought you needed to add something.

Very easy (like 5 minutes), but not builtin.

>                                                One of my colleagues
> rewrote one of our server programs (written in VMS-BASIC then saving
> data data to RMS) to Python. Surprisingly, the Python program is
> smaller while yet faster.
It is not surprising that Python code is short - it usually is.

It sounds weird that interpreted Python code should be faster
than compiled Basic code. Most likely the libraries used by the
Python code is way more optimized than those used by the Basic
code.

Arne