[Koha-devel] Koha and DBIC

[Tomas Cohen Arazi]

Hey, there is a project for Haskell -> Perl using Fay.

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Mark Tompsett <mtompset at hotmail.com> 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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