[9847] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: www-talk-d Digest V96 #26
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Luke Gonze)
Mon Mar 18 14:01:00 1996
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 12:10:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Luke Gonze <applix!uunet!applix!luke@uunet.uu.net>
To: Mike Dilworth <uunet!applix!uunet!soi.city.ac.uk!mjd@uunet.uu.net>
Cc: Luke Gonze <uunet!applix!uunet!applix!luke@uunet.uu.net>,
uunet!applix!uunet!applix!uunet!w3.org!www-talk@uunet.uu.net
In-Reply-To: <199603171906.RAA04094@prometheus.hol.gr>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
I certainly don't mean to slight the utility of perl or other higher-level
resources. As a C programmer working with libwww, the netscape server api,
and embedded sql I tend to think in those terms. As always, the details of
the job should dictate the choice of tools.
On Sun, 17 Mar 1996, Mike Dilworth wrote:
> >Carlos:
> >>I can connect informix database with web server ?
> >>we are working development aplication in informix but we don't know
> >Khow to link informix database with web server ..
> >
> >It depends on your general approach. The most basic way is to compile your
> >cgi scripts with embedded sql, assuming that you have C programmers who know
> >that environment. There are also quite a few vendors of web/cgi<-->rdbms
> >tools and 4GLs. I'd be surprized of none of them read this list and post
> >info on their products.
...
> is all this really necessary ? I use perl myself, not C, and it strikes me
> that i could just make system calls using sql to the database and then send
> the output back to the browser via a few line of perl to stick in the html
> stuff. but maybe i am being a little too simplistic ?
--- Luke Gonze --- luke@applix.com ---
--- Software Engineer, Applix Espresso project ---
