Re: data with metadata

*** Hendrickson wrote:
Gary Scott wrote:

Ken Plotkin wrote:

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:57:24 -0700 (PDT), analyst41@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


Would it be a good idea to define "fortran data sets" as part of the
language?


[snip]

No. Data format should not be part of a language.

Ken Plotkin

It would be of tremendous value tho if there was a standardized database interface for Fortran.

Doesn't the C interoperability feature do this? Essentially any
set of library routines that can be described in terms of the C
features can be called from Fortran. I think most of the major
databases have a C interface.

Well, yes, but "yuk". At least if some vendor goes the rest of the way and creates a ready-made module of declarations (and whatever else may be needed to adapt to the "Fortran way". F90SQL only went part of the way, retaining much of the horrid C'isms of the native API.



*** Hendrickson


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