Re: [PLOB] Upcoming release 2.11

[Heiko K. <hei...@gm...>]

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.
>>    
>>
>
>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.
>  
>
Well, I think that if an API does not constrain the possibilities of the 
language
using the API, it fairly does not mind how this API is implemented (is 
this an
`extensional interface'?). I've tried to use this approach when coding Plob.

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

Viele Grüße,
Heiko