On 7/20/2014 10:40 PM, Gavin Lambert wrote:
On 18/07/2014 20:02, Michael Shepanski wrote:
The thing that amazes me most is that we are such a small club. When I read things online about how ORM is "the Vietnam of computer science", and the way people seemed to have coined the phrase "impedance mismatch" specifically to mean "I'm sad because I can't write queries in my programming language", I wonder why everyone isn't attempting this.
Speaking for myself, here, but nowadays I punt things like database access to C# code, where just about everything is trivial (there's libraries for everything, and even if you want to hand-roll the SQL you can make a basic bare-persistence ORM in less than a page of code).
Which isn't to say that I wouldn't be thrilled if there were a good C++ database library. It's just that historically there hasn't been (to my knowledge), and I haven't minded that all that much because I usually regard C++ as useful for high-performance code and integration with third-party native libraries, and C# as useful for everything else.
Now excuse me while I don my flame-retardant coat, for daring to post such things in a C++ mailing list. ;)
I have written database components in C++, C#, Python, and even Object Pascal in my career. Depending on the other database tools/components you use it can be easy or hard to create code in any of those languages and C#/.net hardly has a monopoly on database programming. I would welcome a good cross-platform C++ database library using sql, or even one based on an object-oriented database instead. I am glad to see C++ programmers working on a cross-platform C++ database library.