A very traditional niche of scripting languages, (such as Perl, Python or Ruby), has been in the ad hoc manipulation of databases – from grabbing data, transforming it, performing bulk updates, right on through to full-on data migration projects that move data from one platform or RDBMS to another. Scripting languages are …

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Thursday 25th October 2007 16:36 GMT Anonymous Coward

Finally but

What the hell has taken so long this has been massive pain forever and why the stupid name.

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Thursday 25th October 2007 18:42 GMT Eugene Crosser

Closure?

Commonly, "closure" is a "thing" that contains a piece of code, usually anonymous function, *and* some data private to that function. What you call "closure" in your example is a simple lambda (anonymous function), not a proper closure.

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