Re: [GNU-COBOL] Re: Laura Leaving GNU COBOL Project

[Chad Slaughter <slaught@advancenet.net>]

Haroldo Stenger wrote :>
>
>Chad Slaughter wrote:
>> files, is the big one, writing routines to do sequential, relative, and indexed
>> files. These ahve to be writtent up. these are also the big ones with no
>> current implementation. somebody help!!!! please!!!
>
>Here I'd like to play with some ideas. If I could choose, I'd like to do file
>access using a database engine. And to be coherent, I'd choose PostgreSQL, which
>is BSD-style free. But one could think that it is not enough freedom! So, why
>not using ODBC or something similar? PostgreSQL has good ODBC support for Perl
>(or should it be said Perl has good ODBC support for PostgreSQL?). It
>(PostgreSQL) has also support for C/C++ access.
>
>Some really cool things could be done if this two-layer scheme is implemented.
>For instance, accessing the same database from diferent languages.
>
>I could help. I'd like to hear what you think.

Sounds interesting. I'd like to hear more about it. 
Any more low-leve ideas. the basic idea, i dont see anything wrong with it.
and if it helps get the files stuff out faster, then go for it. =)

Sorry I odnt have any good ideas on the files.




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