Re: Storing data and code in a Db with LISP-like interface
From: Neo <neo55592_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 12 Apr 2006 20:29:19 -0700
Message-ID: <1144893894.652035.113600_at_t31g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
Date: 12 Apr 2006 20:29:19 -0700
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> Aren't you basically reinventing Prolog or one of its variants? The notion of code in a database where the code modifies itself as part of the data management is fundamental to Prolog. How is this different?
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At the most fundamental level, the difference is the method used to
represent things. LISP uses linked lists that can be nested. My
LISP-like interface (in early stages of dev) uses a more general data
model whose flexibility can not be achieved by linked-lists. This
flexibility comes at the cost of complexity/memory size/processing time
making it less efficient within the useful scope of LISP. I don't know
Prolog's data model so I can't comment.
Received on Thu Apr 13 2006 - 05:29:19 CEST