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What is to replace Perl then?

Posted Dec 4, 2008 11:42 UTC (Thu) by niner (subscriber, #26151)
In reply to: What is to replace Perl then? by sbergman27
Parent article: On the future of Perl 5

> Ummm... import urlparse and/or urllib?
> there have been pgSQL, psycopg, and psycopg2 modules

And they say that Perl is bad for there being more than one way to do something.
And still, Perl with it's DBI is the only of the P-scripting languages where essential things
like database access is simple and straight forward.

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Posted Dec 4, 2008 17:58 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

to be fair there are sometimes alternate database packages for perl, the DBI/DBM arrangement works well for many things, but it's a 'least common denominator' type of interface.

for postgres there is the Pg.pm module as well as the DBI interface.

What is to replace Perl then?

Posted Dec 4, 2008 23:07 UTC (Thu) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link]

Fair? The last version of Pg.pm is from April 2000, 8 1/2 years ago.

Honestly, who would be tempted by this ancient module?