A practical LAML programming exercise

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A practical LAML programming exercise

In this part of the seminar we will develop some aspects of a LAML-based WWW site

Handling of bookmarks:
- Motivation: It is not practical to bind WWW bookmarks to a single machine nor to a single browser
- We will assume that we maintain a list of bookmark entries, each of the form
  - (bookmark URL title category comment)
  - The first constituent is a symbol (tag) and the others are text strings.
- The exercise: Given a list of bookmarks make a frame-based bookmark browser

This exercise illustrates LAML programming - not really programmatic authoring - due the very structured nature of the problem domain.

An example of the resulting browser
An elucidative program for the browser