Re: Lua and databases

[Steve Dekorte <steve@...>]

Bennett Todd <bet@mordor.net> wrote:
> (3) Provide a thin ``database-independant'' shim layer on top, that talks to
>     database-specific layers below.
> 
> That third point, the idea behind Perl's DBI/DBD system, makes it much easier
> to write code against one database management system, then port it to another;
> it should also support running database queries against multiple database
> systems simultaneously. It'd be good to look over the docs to perl's DBI, as
> that went through some years of evolution to reach its current state.

All these different "scripting" languages need to talk to databases.
Hasn't a common C API for doing this come about so they can all just
link to the same C libs?

Steve