[Koha-devel] Koha and DBIC

[Philippe Blouin]

+1

On 09/11/2014 08:13 AM, Mark Tompsett wrote:
> Greetings,
> Fey?! Please, let's not add more technologies (Haskell that compiles 
> to Javascript) in for geekiness sake. I have been reading this 
> dialogue between Robin and Kyle and thinking to myself, "Why was DBIC 
> added in the first place? Was it not to increase portability (where is 
> that 'it does not run on Postgresql!' person) , 'simplify' (at the 
> cost of another learning curve) data access, and provide a cleaner 
> abstraction for data access?" So, why was it added? Was it added to be 
> more Object Oriented (OO) so we could use it in the way that is being 
> discussed? So, I'll reiterate my question again, which I think will 
> bring some clarity to the discussion, what was the point of adding DBIC?
> GPML,
> Mark Tompsett
> P.S. Abstractions are okay, but abstractions upon abstractions are 
> ugly for the initial learning curve. If you want people to join the 
> coding community, multiple levels of abstractions make it more difficult.
>
>
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