[om-list] Databases

[Luke Call]

Agreed on all points, as far as I can tell.

As far as languages go I always appreciate reading what you say. What if 
you compile the scheme/lisp code to java bytecodes and execute it right 
in the jvm, alongside the code from java/python/whatever other language 
you need at the time? There is a very interesting scheme tutorial (for 
people new to programming but he also has good ideas about making things 
readable I think), at http://www.htdp.com.

The framerd documentation has got me thinking about modeling our data in 
objects and how basic algorithms would work. Not to say we have to use 
it but it's got me thinking. I haven't got into their source code yet. 
Do you think their code decent enough that if we used it, we could live 
with it? I'm wondering if their development community is stagnating, 
which would mean we would probably be doing some maintenance on the code 
base ourselves. They have so many interesting features (text processing, 
nondeterministic data, other things you've pointed out, some data from 
cyc etc) that it seems like it could be a very effective tool for 
getting a first prototype out, whether it used java or scheme/lisp or a mix.

Luke