Re: Upcoming release 2.11

Moin Edi,

Edi Weitz schrieb:

>>Since Franz is expert in Lisp Systems, I guess they wanted to buy
>>some database instead of coding it from scratch, as I assume also
>>for the reason not having the efforts to code a complete database
>>system on their own. Expectations on a working database system w.r.t
>>to its ACID properties tend to be very high.
>>   =20
>>
>
>But one shouldn't underestimate the marketing value.  Franz is in the
>business of selling Lisp and basing their new flagship database
>product on a C library is a bit like "Lisp is quite good for certain
>things but for the real stuff you have to use C of course."
>
>Oh, and thanks for all the technical explanations that I have snipped.
> =20
>
Well, I think that if an API does not constrain the possibilities of the=20
language
using the API, it fairly does not mind how this API is implemented (is=20
this an
`extensional interface'?). I've tried to use this approach when coding Pl=
ob.

>But don't you think this mailing list is the right forum for this kind
>of discussion?
> =20
>
*This* kind of discussion is ok. What I meant is I don't want to discuss=20
here e.g.
technical details about the persistent heap layers API or things like=20
that. `Strategic'
discussions like the ones we had about how the further development of=20
Plob could be
done are necessary and therefore completely ok (as long as the readers=20
don't start to
unsubscribe ...)

Viele Gr=FC=DFe,
Heiko



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