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The most interesting part imho is the lifestream he talks about, as well the implied "eternity service" for information management. I wonder besides Linda, why
by dejan 17y ago
The most interesting part imho is the lifestream he talks about, as well the implied "eternity service" for information management. I wonder besides Linda, why more of these ideas didn't see implementation. I am assuming the Internet and the open source collaboration came too late.
Linda for sure will see reincarnation, but can't stop thinking how funny it is that old technologies are coming back in big fashion, as "innovations". PG might be right, all languages seem to be evolving into Lisp. :D
- dpezely 17y agoRegarding a return of Linda, I couldn't help but note similar themes when first learning about Amazon's Dynamo and later, the Apache Cassandra Project. I'm not saying that there's a perfect match, but when one's imagination has academic roots in the era of Linda, it was easy to see a connection through that lens. Anyone else see the potential there? At the very least, it influences how I might use something like Cassandra (or dbm files for that matter), and I've been planting the meme for others to approach their designs that way too.