Re: Graph database

2020-03-13 Thread Alexander Burger
On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 10:22:12PM +0100, Alexander Burger wrote: > Perhaps this helps? https://software-lab.de/doc/tut.html#ext > > It is really very simple. Understanding PicoLisp symbols is perhaps the important point. https://software-lab.de/doc/ref.html#symbol The rest is just making

Re: Graph database

2020-03-13 Thread Alexander Burger
On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 04:02:44PM -0500, Lawrence Bottorff wrote: > Could you point me to a beginner's treatment of this topic, especially an > example of a graph database, and what exactly a picolisp pointer is? Perhaps this helps? https://software-lab.de/doc/tut.html#ext It is really very

Re: Graph database

2020-03-13 Thread Lawrence Bottorff
Could you point me to a beginner's treatment of this topic, especially an example of a graph database, and what exactly a picolisp pointer is? I'm afraid I don't even know what you mean by a pointer in this context. I know from C what a pointer is, but a picolisp pointer is beyond my

Re: Graph database

2020-03-13 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Lawrence, > I take it the picolisp graph database follows more the Neo4j property graph > idea than any RDF/OWL triples, correct? That seems obvious, but I thought > I'd check. I haven't dived in deep, buy you seem to use Lisp objects to > create a vertex. But then what are the edges? Again,