Re: Jeppesen database

[Brian Lloyd <brian@lloyd.com>]

At 04:04 PM 3/25/99 -0800, you wrote:
>A small plug for Perl (currently my favorite language :)...
>
>Even if the planning software was written in C with a GTK/Qt/Whatever front
>end, a Perl script (using DBI) would be a great took to import the data
>into a local database.  OR, there are ways of imbedding perl in a C
>program, that could be done as well.  It seems to me that Perl would be the
>easiest to use for processing/import that data.  Hey, there might already
>be a Perl module for importing COBAL data.

We tend to work in Java.  PERL is great for string manipulation but I am
not sure it is an advantage for processing fixed-length records where byte
offsets define the element boundaries.

How many people are interested in using Java?  We opted for it because it
pretty much eliminated our dependence on a particular platform (as long as
the platform supports Java, of course).  Certainly PERL is portable as well
but IMHO it is not well suited to large scale development.  C is not quite
as portable.


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