[Info-vax] Oracle Database vs Oracle/Rdb

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-06-25 kl. 02:14, skrev 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.
> 

It might be "built-in" in the sense that is might be included (pre
installed) in many of the usual packages of Python. Like the fact
that, if you install the VMS Python kit, Rdb access is "built-in".


>>                                                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