--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Ann W. Harrison"
<aharrison@i...> wrote:

> At 04:41 AM 6/1/2004, johnsparrowuk wrote:
> Actually, it was Jim who didn't see a reason for stored procedures,
> though he did recognize the benefits of triggers.

Ah, maybe it was Jim who wrote the document I read! ;)

> As for the stored procedure vs declarative language issue, as
> a general rule, I prefer declarative language to procedural

language.

> (Yes, I sort of favored QUEL, too.) But the flexibility of triggers
> and stored procedures is quite a challenge to emulate in any
> declarative language, so I think we'll have procedures and triggers
> for a while.

A agree totally. I'm just think they're so powerful they tempt us to
do 'the wrong things' with them...

John