Re: DSSSL engine in LISP?

[Daniel Mahler <dmahler@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> ... Ideally, you
> could attach databases as well and make grove representations of them
> also.  Our feeling is that the problem of the next 10 years will be
> the problem of data "addressability", and that groves provide the most
> viable solution to this issue which we are currently aware of.

I have read Paul Prescod's paper on this, but I do not really get it.
As far as I know, groves are just annotated syntax trees.
How do they help you address pieces of information inside
a database or inside a PowerPoint presentation?
(This is the what you and Paul are claiming right?)
Do you build a grove representation of the entire database?
What if the data is embedded in a a document
in some proprietary format?

Daniel

BTW Can someone define "grove plans" and "ESIS streams" <=50 words :)


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