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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 8 Jun 1994 06:43:59 MST
Via: uk.ac.edinburgh.festival; Wed, 8 Jun 1994 08:56:26 +0100
Date: 08 Jun 94 08:56:18 BST
From: R J Hare <rjhare@festival.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Dedicated databases
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Organisation: Edinburgh University Computing Service
Message-Id: <9406080856.aa21126@uk.ac.ed.festival>
Status: R
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
I have a need (well, several other people do, actually) for a
dedicated database for cataloguing books, records, CDs and tapes. I would
like to tackle this as a small project in Icon. Does anyone have any
suggestions as to the 'best' way to do this? I have my own ideas (for
example, books might be delt with as a list of tables, each table having
fields such as book["author"], book["title"], etc., but I would welcome
suggestions from other Icon programmers...
Thanks
Roger Hare.