From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA27802; Sat, 5 Jul 2003 21:30:01 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA26337 for ; Sat, 5 Jul 2003 21:29:59 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mail.cql.com (jael.cql.com [216.19.209.133] (may be forged)) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id h65JTwf29238 for ; Sat, 5 Jul 2003 21:29:58 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 9919 invoked from network); 5 Jul 2003 12:25:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO amethyst.cql.com) (192.168.1.14) by mail.cql.com with SMTP; 5 Jul 2003 12:25:46 -0000 Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 12:29:56 -0700 From: Seth Kurtzberg To: Sadruddin Rejeb Cc: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml Object-Oriented database? Message-Id: <20030705122956.278d4349.seth@cql.com> In-Reply-To: <200307051800.47353.lists@mjt.ch> References: <200307051800.47353.lists@mjt.ch> Organization: M. I. S. Corp. X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 show-stopper:01 bug:01 faq:01 beginner's:01 beginners:01 661:99 bin:01 480:98 caml-bugs:01 ocaml:01 caml:01 feasible:01 groups:01 o'caml:02 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Sad, I've done some work in this direction, although with an object-relational d= atabase, not an OODB. I'm convinced that the OODB concept is fatally flawe= d. There is no show stopper in the language as far as database implementation = goes. Well, there are some issues but nothing that can't be cured by addin= g a method or two to the file classes. On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 18:00:47 +0200 Sadruddin Rejeb wrote: > Hello, > I just discovered OCaml a month ago, and I'm beginning to love it. I woul= d=20 > like to know if anyone on this list ever thought of implementing an=20 > Object-Oriented database (=E0 la ZODB) in O'Caml. Do you think it's not t= oo=20 > hardly feasible? Is there any show-stopper in the language to prevent thi= s? > I'm thinking a Zope-equivalent in O'Caml would be a killer app... >=20 > Regards, > Sad >=20 > ------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inr= ia.fr > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr= /FAQ/ > Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners >=20 --=20 Seth Kurtzberg MIS Corp 480-661-1849 seth@cql.com ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners