Perl is a perfect candidate for simple scripting in open source database, is't it?
BTW It is easier to design simple scrips in Perl, on my mind :)

Maxim Sinev
Spektrum Web Development
http://www.spektrum.org.ru

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> >Rather than inventing yet another language, I think it makes
> >a great deal of sense to standardize on an existing, industry
> >standard language. Java is the obvious choice (madam, there
> >is no second). It is computationally complete, has a civilized
> >database api, and has a standardized binary format. It also
> >provides a modicum of obscurity for VARs that wish to prevent
> >leakage of source code.
>
> Although I have no real objection to the use of Java it might be nice to
> have a choice of languages. All modern scripting languages support
> integration with C pretty nicely and most have open source
> licences. Remember that Oracle had to upgrade their database to make it
> compatible with Java 1.2 and Sun is already ready to release 1.3. Keep this
> in mind if you plan on bundling them together. Unless the JVM selection is
> dynamic you stand a good chance of running behind the curve. The open
> source JVMs tend lag far behind the efforts of IBM and Sun.
>
>
>
> :wq
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