Testing the waters.

[Harvey J. Stein]

Chris Bitmead uid writes:
 > 
 > >I think it is not so much "and", but "or".  Either we strive to make
 > >the POS as transparent as possible, or it is up to the application.
 > >If there is significant labor on the part of the application, a
 > >programmer might as well use pathnames and do object archiving by
 > >hand.
 > >
 > >The result of a transparent POS in LispOS should be that programs
 > >written for LispOS have very minimal responsibilities
 > >w.r.t. persistence.  
 > 
 > That is correct. That's why POS programs won't work in a conventional
 > environment. POS programs don't do anything to access the
 > disk. Conventional programs go through all sorts of contortions.

Even if you have a POS based program, I'd think you'd still need to
code up all these contortions so as to be able to import and export
data from and to other systems.

-- 
Harvey J. Stein
Berger Financial Research
abel@netvision.net.il