Re: Looking for a nail

From: mattwb@valery.alve.com
Date: Mon Jan 25 1999 - 14:36:26 MET


From: mattwb@valery.alve.com
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 07:36:26 -0600
Message-Id: <199901251336.HAA01166@valery.alve.com>
To: laheadle@cs.uchicago.edu
Subject: Re: Looking for a nail

>
>Lyn A Headley <laheadle@cs.uchicago.edu> writes:
>
>>>>>> "Miles" == Miles Egan <cullenx@earthlink.net> writes:
>
>
> Miles> I've been working with OCaml on my own for the past two
> Miles> weeks or so and think I'm finally ready to take on a real
> Miles> project. I feel like I've just come upon a beautiful new
> Miles> hammer and I want to find some nails to hit with it.
>
>Ocaml could really use some nice database interfaces. Any of
>Postgresql, Mysql, or the free sybase or oracle bindings would go a
>long way toward making ocaml attractive for free software hackers. I
>would also consider a web server and/or some HTML generation
>utilities.
>
>-Lyn
>

I have written postgresql bindings as well as ODBC bindings that
work with MySQL's iODBC (and any other ODBC database) if anyone's
interested. They need some work, but it's a start.



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