Does this OO database / spreadsheet / language exist?

#1

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:

Quote:

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.

#2

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

Chess Saurus wrote:

Quote:

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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#3

In article <e722c26f.0311291718.2217a00a (AT) posting (DOT) google.com>,
chessaurus (AT) yahoo (DOT) com (Chess Saurus) wrote:

Quote:

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:

Quote:

is interpreter prompt

class Animal:
.... name=""

.... age = 0
....

Quote:

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.

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