[Seed7-users] Greetings, new in the list

[FRD <fer...@gm...>]

Hi, I'm new in the user's list. I've discovered Seed7 by accident browsing
Rosetta Code's site. Now I'm doing small programs to understand the
language.

TL;DR My initial contact with the language is very positive.

I like the syntax, very clear and regular, that makes programs very easy to
read, but not as heavy to write as the Ada language (!). The use or result
instead of return and the local block of variables make sense, it makes the
code more structured. I like this feature in Eiffel language too.
Multimethods are another good move. I'm interested in languages with this
feature like Dylan or Common Lisp.
Extension mecanism looks great, but I'm not ready yet to use it :).
The documentation is good and the examples in prg directory are very
interesting.
Really impressive work. Congratulations.

Now a question:

I made a small program with SQLITE database. I notice that the insert time
of a thousand records is more slow than I expected. The same program with
Tcl doing only one transaction is 0.4s and with one transaction per
insertion is 4s, the same time than the s7d program. It is possible to make
a transaction with all the records together in Seed7? Is autocommit in
SQLITE on? I didn't see nothing in the sql_base API to change it.

my code is like

db := open database
prepare(statement)
for record range records
 bind(parameters)
 execute(statement)
end for
commit(db)

Kind regards,