Re: [racket] Datalog suitable for an accounts package?

2011-09-18 Thread Mark Carter
Fascinating. Thanks for the link. I have a lot - and I do mean a lot - to learn about it. I tried putting in some simple "facts", and noted how the querying worked. Oh my. It was a bit of an eye-opener. I see what you mean about the querying. It's as if a lot of what is in the developers "domai

Re: [racket] Datalog suitable for an accounts package?

2011-09-18 Thread Wojciech Kaczmarek
Hi! You can use Datalog or Racklog. In order to decide or just feel comfortable with any of them it could be beneficial for you to grasp some basics of Prolog; here's a decent online material: http://www.learnprolognow.org/ Speaking of structures: you don't have to name the fields. Facts you stat

[racket] Datalog suitable for an accounts package?

2011-09-18 Thread Mark Carter
I've been in the process of writing a little financial accounts package in Racket. I'm wondering if, instead of writing a lot of scheme code, a lot of funtionality could be more expressively and concisely be written in Datalog. I've never used Datalog before, nor Prolog, but I know it's somethin