Subject: Semantics Seminar Schedule
From: wand@ccs.neu.edu
Date: Mon Dec 03 2001 - 00:05:01 EST
NU Programming Languages Seminar
Wednesday, December 5, 2001, 10:30-12:30
306 Egan Hall, Northeastern University
(building 61 on the map at http://www.neu.edu/maps/maps.html)
Paul Steckler
Database Support in PLT Scheme, Past and Possibilities
To be considered seriously as a "scripting language", PLT Scheme needs
to be able to connect to existing database servers. For that reason,
we wrote a PLT Scheme extension called SrPersist, which implements the
ODBC standard. With SrPersist, we can write Scheme programs that work
with nearly any commercial relational database. Unfortunately, the
programming model for ODBC is all about state, hence unSchemely. Can
we design a database API that is suitable for functional languages in
general, and Scheme in particular? We'll look at a recent design for
Haskell, and Franscisco Solsona's SchemeQL functional layer over
SrPersist.
Upcoming presentations:
1/9 Galen Williamson
1/23 Mitch Wand
Most meetings will be 1030-1230 in 306 EG.
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