Adrian Kubala <adr...@sixfingeredman.net> writes:
> I'm fixing to write a basic database web frontend for HR data. I'd really
> like to do it in Scheme. I've been paid only to write PHP for the last
> several years and so I've accumulated a very practical, lightweight
> collection of libraries: sql manipulation, MVC forms, object-relational
> layer, db abstraction, date libs, etc., and I can't justify rewriting all
> this stuff, straightforward though it may be. There's also the fact that
> I'm relatively new to Lisp and I'd rather start (and learn) from a
> foundation created by experienced programmers than risk hacking together
> an ugly, un-Lispy framework which I eventually have to throw away.

> So I'm wondering if there are any existing open-source projects which can
> get me partway there -- anything close to a framework for web
> applications, but ideally something which goes so far as to fully automate
> creating a basic interface for a given relational schema.

> Common Lisp would be ok too -- I prefer Scheme because it seems to have
> less awkward historical baggage and I like a functional (lots of HOFs)
> style -- but any (statically scoped) Lisp is better than PHP.