I guess I've always been easily impressed. I'm not "Oooh, shiny!" all the time or something, but all the same, I find myself smiling and grinning at things that other people find either mundane or hopelessly arcane.
Take DBD::CSV. (Please. *rim shot*) It impresses me greatly that I'm going to be able to work out simple SQL on DBD::CSV, and then, essentially just by changing my use DBD::CSV; to use DBD::MySQL; , I'll be able to use roughly the same syntax with MySQL.
I realize that this is the goal of modular code -- to be able to use as much of one thing in another, and to provide standardized syntax as much as possible for things that should have standardized syntax. I further realize that it didn't happen all by itself; it was the effort of other people that allows such neat, easy tricks.
I can't help it. I think it's really, really slick.
There's also DBD::Sprite, descended from the Sprite module developed for the first edition of O'Reilly's CGI Programming on the World Wide Web. Or to be really fun there's DBD::Excel. Matt Sergeant was also working on writing a DBD for a standalone file-based database awhile back; it was in his journal.
Re:Other standalone DBD's
lachoy on 2002-06-14T20:44:45
That standalone DBD is DBD::SQLite -- very nice.
Re:Other standalone DBD's
belg4mit on 2002-06-14T23:19:41
It's been a dream of mine to get around to writing DBD::DBM. Utterly useless, but, you know,
for completeness' sake.
