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	Lyn A Headley on Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:01:12 -0600)
Subject: Re: Looking for a nail
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>Lyn A Headley <laheadle@cs.uchicago.edu> writes:
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>>>>>> "Miles" == Miles Egan <cullenx@earthlink.net> writes:
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>    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.