Re: [PLOB] Upcoming release 2.11

[Edi W. <ed...@ag...>]

On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 15:10:50 +0200, Heiko Kirschke <hei...@gm...> =
wrote:

> Well, my reasoning is based more on, hmm, thinking about effort than
> thinking that this would not be technically possible with a pure-CL
> solution.

OK, that sounds better to my ears.  I'm still wondering why seemingly
nobody has done a pure Lisp solution since the days of Statice,
though.

> 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.

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.

> You're welcome!

Fine.  Don't hold your breath, though.  This is something I've been
thinking about for a long time but I can only do it in my limited
spare time.  (Although finally I'll hopefully benefit from it in my
professional work as well.)

> If you or someone else could show up with a solution of providing
> some low level persistent layer in LISP, I would be happy to use
> it. Again, I'm thinking in terms of effort, i.e. to create a good
> working solution in a moderate amount of time, that is my reason
> d'etre. I see no technical obstacle for a pure LISP solution, and
> also would prefer this kind of solution. IMHO, technical details on
> this can be discussed offline.

OK, we can of course meet for a coffee... :)

But don't you think this mailing list is the right forum for this kind
of discussion?

Beste Gr=FC=DFe,
Edi.