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From: Gerd Stolpmann <Gerd.Stolpmann@darmstadt.netsurf.de>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Looking for a nail
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:57:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <99012523302202.05969@schneemann> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199901242301.RAA08815@yeenoghu.cs.uchicago.edu>

On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Lyn A Headley wrote:

>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.

I am currently working on a db interface that connects to Adabas D,
and plan to write another driver for Informix. If somebody else is
interested in that we could share code; most commercial DBMS follow
the ANSI standard for embedded SQL and because of that it should be very 
simple to derive drivers for other DBMS. As far as I know, the free
DBMS have their own specific interfaces; drivers would have to be totally
rewritten.

What would be really nice if Miles is interested in that are tools for
server-side "scripting", as alternative for Perl and Python. This could
mean a good CGI parser, a configurable XML-to-HTML converter, HTTP and
FTP tools, and a killer app showing everybody what's going on.

Another interesting project would be a Corba interface, as Gnome and KDE
want to use Corba. Then Ocaml would be one of the most elegant ways to
write desktop applications.


Gerd
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  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-01-26 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-01-24 21:06 Miles Egan
1999-01-24 23:01 ` Lyn A Headley
1999-01-25  8:44   ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
1999-01-25 20:45     ` Markus Mottl
1999-01-25 13:36   ` mattwb
1999-01-25 20:48     ` Trevor Jim
1999-01-25 21:57   ` Gerd Stolpmann [this message]
1999-01-25 12:45 ` Michel Schinz
1999-01-25 20:37   ` Markus Mottl
1999-01-28  9:54     ` Michel Schinz
1999-01-28 14:13       ` Markus Mottl
1999-01-25 20:53 Hendrik Tews
1999-01-26 19:20 ` Ian T Zimmerman
1999-01-28  1:30   ` John Prevost
1999-01-28 20:10   ` Hendrik Tews
1999-01-27  1:29 ` Jacques GARRIGUE
1999-01-27  8:27 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
1999-01-28  9:34 ` Cuihtlauac ALVARADO
1999-01-28 13:32 Don Syme
1999-01-29  0:25 ` Markus Mottl
1999-01-31 18:43 ` John Whitley
1999-01-29  0:45 Frank A. Christoph

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