>>>> "SJT" == Stephen J Turnbull
<turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:
SJT> Also note that in the past some
reviewers strongly opposed the use of
SJT> implementation-specific idioms at the Lisp level (ie, ODBC or mysql or
SJT> postgresql), preferring a generic Emacs interface with "escapes" for
SJT> efficient use of variations (a la Perl's generic database interface).
I don't consider ODBC implementation-specific; instead, I consider it
a generic interface, and so more suitable for an application like
xemacs to target.