Hi BayFP people, We're using FP and we're in the Bay Area (San Jose) so we thought you might be interested in hearing about what we're doing. We're a web startup, the Biographicon (www.biographicon.com). It's a wiki site, of biographies, open to all.
We use Scheme, exclusively, on the back end. Our implementation of choice is Kawa, which as you may know is a Scheme on the Java Virtual Machine platform. Though for internal stuff we've used quite a bit of PLT Scheme too. You last heard from me when I posted to the list in January about a talk I (Ethan) was giving on using Scheme in our startup. To summarize: we use Scheme exclusively on the back end. Our implementation of choice is Kawa, which as you may know is a Scheme on the Java Virtual Machine platform. Though for internal stuff we've used quite a bit of PLT Scheme too. We're not using a relational database, but instead keeping our data in files, structured as s-expressions. This has been a win, we feel though there have been times when exploring data with a language like SQL would be nice. But using Scheme and grep and other shell tools to explore the data has been better at other times. Naturally, since we use Scheme we aren't a purely functional shop, but certainly the large majority of our code is done in a functional style. We always lean towards making things FP, and it wins. I hope this is interesting to you. I also posted on the CUFP list and will post on the Lispniks list, too, so if you're tired of getting hammered by my posts, I apologize. We'd love to talk about this stuff with you - if you have suggestions or questions, fire away. -Ethan Herdrick -Daniel Terhorst www.biographicon.com - Everyone's biography. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to "Bay Area Functional Programmers" To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bayfp?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
