RE: [stellation-res] SQL name length question

["Jonathan Gossage" <jgossage@xxxxxxxx>]

> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: stellation-res-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >[mailto:stellation-res-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mark C.
> >Chu-Carroll
> >Sent: September 1, 2002 10:18 AM
> >To: stellation-res@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: RE: [stellation-res] SQL name length question
> >
> >
> >
> >I clipped the discussion accidentally... But if you decide to try to do
> >the database abstraction plugin: we'll be glad to treat it as a
> >Stellation subproject, and give you space to host it, as long as you
> >use Stellation as a testcase for  it.
> >
> >Ringo De Smet pointed out an early attempt to try to do something like
> >that on SourceForge. If you go back into the mailing list archives,
> >you should be able to find where he mentions it. It was within the first
> >week or two of the mailing list.
> >
> >
> >On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 18:02, Jonathan Gossage wrote:
> >> > >The things that I see as likely contenders for language
> >support beyond
> >> > >Java:
> >> > >- Javascript. I dislike Javascript, but there are some
> >websphere folks
> >> > > who do a lot with it, and I don't think it would be too hard to
> >> > > support.
> >> > >
> >> > >- Python. Fun language, lots of users, and a reasonably
> >easy one to tie
> >> > > into Stellation.
> >> > >
> >> > >- OCaml. My personal favorite language. Given time, I would
> >dearly like
> >> > >  to put together an OCaml plugin for Eclipse.
> >> > >
> >> > >- XML Schema. There's a lot of work going on involving XML-based
> >> > > web services, and we've had a lot of people working on it
> >tell us how
> >> > > useful Stellation-like capabilities would be for working on the
> >> > > schema for those services. It would be a really
> >challenging thing to
> >> > > do, because it's so different. But it would be really useful,
> >> > > and a real test of the infrastructure of the system.
> >>
> >> How about Perl?
> >
> >I'd like to do perl, because it's the scripting language that I tend to
> >do most. But I suspect it'll be incredibly hard to write a really good
> >query component for it. Perl's a really useful language, but the
> >semantics are really twisted, and the amount of context-sensitivity
> >that an analysis tool would need to deal with is really daunting.
> >But it's a possibility.
> >
> >	-Mark

 What I think you are going to see time and time again is that you are going
to need access to an AST from the language compiler that you can augment as
necessary.

Jonathan