Does this OO database / spreadsheet / language exist?

[Database Administrator]

I'm looking for an interactive, interpreted object oriented database
or language. I have searched vigilantly, but I can't find anything
that comes close to my vision. In it's simplest form, I would guess
that it could interpret source code like this from a
console/interpretter:

>> new class Animal;
>> new field String Animal.name;
>> new field int Animal.age;
>> bob = new Animal;
>> bob.name = "Robert The Tiger"
>> bob.age = 25;
>> new field String Animal.eyeColor;
>> bob.eyeColor = "blue";

.... etc ... Of course, it would be nice to be able to save this
workspace to a file, etc, and have programmatic constructs. It would
be very nice if this system had a visual front end ( to edit objects
and classes as trees ), but this isn't necessary.

Does this ring any bells? Does anything like this exist? I know
there are object oriented databases (which seem to be only useful when
directly called from a programming language like java)... But I'm
looking for something more like a productivity tool (I could see it
being as useful as a spreadsheet).

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[Database Administrator]

what did you think about Smalltalk for this purpose?
There are also free versions of it like Squeak

Chess Saurus wrote:

> I'm looking for an interactive, interpreted object oriented database
> or language. I have searched vigilantly, but I can't find anything
> that comes close to my vision. In it's simplest form, I would guess
> that it could interpret source code like this from a
> console/interpretter:
>
> >> new class Animal;
> >> new field String Animal.name;
> >> new field int Animal.age;
> >> bob = new Animal;
> >> bob.name = "Robert The Tiger"
> >> bob.age = 25;
> >> new field String Animal.eyeColor;
> >> bob.eyeColor = "blue";
>
> ... etc ... Of course, it would be nice to be able to save this
> workspace to a file, etc, and have programmatic constructs. It would
> be very nice if this system had a visual front end ( to edit objects
> and classes as trees ), but this isn't necessary.
>
> Does this ring any bells? Does anything like this exist? I know
> there are object oriented databases (which seem to be only useful when
> directly called from a programming language like java)... But I'm
> looking for something more like a productivity tool (I could see it
> being as useful as a spreadsheet).
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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[Database Administrator]

what did you think about Smalltalk for this purpose?
There are also free versions of it like Squeak

Chess Saurus wrote:

> I'm looking for an interactive, interpreted object oriented database
> or language. I have searched vigilantly, but I can't find anything
> that comes close to my vision. In it's simplest form, I would guess
> that it could interpret source code like this from a
> console/interpretter:
>
> >> new class Animal;
> >> new field String Animal.name;
> >> new field int Animal.age;
> >> bob = new Animal;
> >> bob.name = "Robert The Tiger"
> >> bob.age = 25;
> >> new field String Animal.eyeColor;
> >> bob.eyeColor = "blue";
>
> ... etc ... Of course, it would be nice to be able to save this
> workspace to a file, etc, and have programmatic constructs. It would
> be very nice if this system had a visual front end ( to edit objects
> and classes as trees ), but this isn't necessary.
>
> Does this ring any bells? Does anything like this exist? I know
> there are object oriented databases (which seem to be only useful when
> directly called from a programming language like java)... But I'm
> looking for something more like a productivity tool (I could see it
> being as useful as a spreadsheet).
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.

================================================== =====
War is Peace; Freedom Is Slavery; Ignorance Is Strength
*** GEORGE ORWELL! 1984 ***
================================================== =====

[Database Administrator]

In article ,
chessaurus@yahoo.com (Chess Saurus) wrote:

> I'm looking for an interactive, interpreted object oriented database
> or language.
try Python, freely available on most platforms, already installed on OS/X

http://www.python.org/doc/Summary.html

eg:

>>> is interpreter prompt

>>> class Animal:
.... name=""
.... age = 0
....
>>> bob = Animal()
>>> bob.name = "Robert the Tiger"
>>> bob.age = 25
>>> bob.eyeColor = "blue" # note that I didn't need to explicitly
create this new attribute, just assigned it.

--
Andy Dent BSc MACS AACM
OOFILE - Database, Reports, Graphs, GUI for c++ on Mac, Unix & Windows
PP2MFC - PowerPlant->MFC portability
http://www.oofile.com.au/

[Database Administrator]

In article ,
chessaurus@yahoo.com (Chess Saurus) wrote:

> I'm looking for an interactive, interpreted object oriented database
> or language.
try Python, freely available on most platforms, already installed on OS/X

http://www.python.org/doc/Summary.html

eg:

>>> is interpreter prompt

>>> class Animal:
.... name=""
.... age = 0
....
>>> bob = Animal()
>>> bob.name = "Robert the Tiger"
>>> bob.age = 25
>>> bob.eyeColor = "blue" # note that I didn't need to explicitly
create this new attribute, just assigned it.

--
Andy Dent BSc MACS AACM
OOFILE - Database, Reports, Graphs, GUI for c++ on Mac, Unix & Windows
PP2MFC - PowerPlant->MFC portability
http://www.oofile.com.au/

[taylor1940]

Nice article through which i got a lot of information that would definitely help me in future.
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