I've been in the process of writing a little financial accounts package in Racket. I'm wondering if, instead of writing a lot of scheme code, a lot of funtionality could be more expressively and concisely be written in Datalog. I've never used Datalog before, nor Prolog, but I know it's something to do with "my father's mother's sister".
I've read the Datalog tutorial, and I wonder if it's worth digging deeper. Although my data is relatively simple, there are all sort of weird and wonderful ways that I want to slice and dice it. I suppose the first question is: does Datalog support structures? Let's say I have a concept called an "equity transaction", or etran. It has the fields sym (symbol), date, tag, qty (quantity) and cost. So suppose I bought 100 shares in Apple on Dec 28 2001 at $11.21 (I wish!).The symbol for Apple is "AAPL". How would I express that fact in Datalog (assume that the tag is just some arbitrary symbol for now)? Or am I completely barking up the wrong tree as to the likely suitability of Datalog to the problem at hand? _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
