[Abqlispscheme] Mini Talks

[Richard Cleis]

What about an example of embedding Scheme in Obj-C?

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On Mar 18, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Jim Prewett wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> I'll go ahead and commit to a short intro to the Allegro Graph "graph
> database" from Franz.  Included in this short intro (or maybe this  
> should
> be considered 2 conntected mini-talks :) will be a discussion of using
> Allegro Prologue as the "query language" for the database (as  
> opposed to
> something like SPARQL, the SQL of the "semantic web" AFAICT) and why I
> think that it is a very nice tool for querying your database
>
> I'll talk a little about why I like it as opposed to a "traditional"
> relational database.  I'll see if I can't show off how its faster  
> than all
> heck!  (Franz is claiming an order of magnitude speed-up over Oracle's
> graph database stuff for some standard benchmark!!!).
>
> I'm not going to discuss how one might make a full "Web 3.0" app or
> anything - Maybe after you guys see my presentation, *someone else*  
> can
> take that on (as I'd like to see it!).  I'm only going to discuss the
> database, a little about how to use it, serialize (a subset of) your
> databse to RDF/XML.  I will also not discuss any of the  
> "clustering" stuff
> for improving the performance of your DB or how to use any of the Java
> interface to the AGraph (yuck!  who would want *that* ;P )
>
> For my demo, I'll only be using the demo version freely available from
> Franz.  It is crippled, but not in a way we will care about, so if you
> want to follow along in your own REPL, get ACL and AGraph set up and
> working - you should be able to (require :agraph) from ACL before  
> you show
> up. :)
>
> really, this will be a fairly short talk :)
> Jim
>
>
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> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Daniel Lyons wrote:
>
>> Earl suggested for the next meeting we consider adopting a "mini  
>> talk"
>> format. The idea is to have many speakers give short talks (on the
>> order of 10-15 minutes) so that less preparation time is needed for
>> speakers and also to increase the variety content and participation.
>>
>> I think it's a good idea, so I'm going to throw out a few mini  
>> talks I
>> think I could prepare between now and the next meeting. Hopefully you
>> will be inspired by the lameness of my ideas and in your fury you  
>> will
>> decide to throw out a few of your own.
>>
>>   * Continuations
>>   * The SERIES macros (lazy evaluation for Common Lisp lists)
>>   * Arc
>>   * Hygienic macros
>>   * Prolog
>>   * Hope (the language)
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> -- 
>> Daniel Lyons
>> http://www.storytotell.org -- Tell It!
>>
>>
>>
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