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February 12, 2009
a lingua franca for data integration
I've said here before that developers should be shielded from the underlying technology of any solution. How else can we focus on what's really important - delivering a functioning application that solves a real business need?
But we also need to work on the language problem. Why should we be forced to juggle a handful of different programming or scripting languages like C, Perl, Java or Korn shell? If a developer is working in SQL, they should be able to do everything they need to do in SQL, without having to resort to Perl, Javascript or a stored procedure.
Too often, we end up creating a shell script or bat file that sets up the environment, do some finagling, then kick off the application - in an inefficient mish mash of technologies.
We need a better way, a single, universal language.
Like expressor datascript - the command-line scripting language we use in our product for every function and feature in the system, from importing custom metadata to scheduling to even creating macros in the editors. With datascript, developers working in expressor can migrate data to Oracle or Netezza, process files, script on the command line - from one place, in one language.
- john russell, co-founder and chief scientist
Posted by expressor software at February 12, 2009 8:30 AM
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