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Yeah this one surprises me. A generic card/db app... tempted to do it myself. A self-contained, no-fuss flexible thing, maybe with a few extras like calendar ba

Yeah this one surprises me. A generic card/db app... tempted to do it myself. A self-contained, no-fuss flexible thing, maybe with a few extras like calendar based events etc. Access I spose is close, buts its awful, and Microsoft.

mamcx 8y ago
I slowly working in something alike: A relational lang: http://tablam.org http://tablam.org Eventually, the idea is have a FoxPro-like experience.
- _pmf_ 8y ago
  Is this by any chance influenced by the "Out of the Tar Pit" paper? Piggybacking on a SQLite backend was also how I have envisioned it ... very interesting project!
  - mamcx 8y ago
    Originally, was just thinking how build a foxpro-like experience :) But this eventually make read a lot about how databases are built and eventually I cross to that paper. I start investigating about the relational model and discover that in fact, is much more simpler and versatile than I think, so I'm building a full relational language as by-product. I also take clues from kdb+/J, and others perspectives about how treat data. I have several small prototypes and now working on rust: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/8ygbvy/state_of_rust_for_iosandroid_on_2018/ https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/8ygbvy/state_of_rust_... because I wanna this to work great on mobile. My dream, is that I not only embed sqlite but also move all the data/bussiness logic to this. And keep the UI and native services using the native platform for each target.
mikey_p 8y ago
Filemaker tried to get into this with Bento, but I think that's been 86ed as well. What I really loved about Hypercard though, was that it was so much more than a database. As a school kid in the 90s I used to make lots of interactive presentations for different classes using Hypercard (at least until I got ahold of Director). Fun fact: some of the early versions of Myst were just Hypercard stacks with images on each card and transparent buttons to link you around the island.

mamcx 8y ago

I slowly working in something alike: A relational lang: http://tablam.org http://tablam.org Eventually, the idea is have a FoxPro-like experience.

_pmf_ 8y ago
Is this by any chance influenced by the "Out of the Tar Pit" paper? Piggybacking on a SQLite backend was also how I have envisioned it ... very interesting project!
- mamcx 8y ago
  Originally, was just thinking how build a foxpro-like experience :) But this eventually make read a lot about how databases are built and eventually I cross to that paper. I start investigating about the relational model and discover that in fact, is much more simpler and versatile than I think, so I'm building a full relational language as by-product. I also take clues from kdb+/J, and others perspectives about how treat data. I have several small prototypes and now working on rust: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/8ygbvy/state_of_rust_for_iosandroid_on_2018/ https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/8ygbvy/state_of_rust_... because I wanna this to work great on mobile. My dream, is that I not only embed sqlite but also move all the data/bussiness logic to this. And keep the UI and native services using the native platform for each target.

mikey_p 8y ago

Filemaker tried to get into this with Bento, but I think that's been 86ed as well. What I really loved about Hypercard though, was that it was so much more than a database. As a school kid in the 90s I used to make lots of interactive presentations for different classes using Hypercard (at least until I got ahold of Director). Fun fact: some of the early versions of Myst were just Hypercard stacks with images on each card and transparent buttons to link you around the island.