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I'd love to hear feedback about this (even if it's mean). Based on the notes toward the end of the article on the limitations of a traditional OS with filesyst
by greggyb 10y ago
I'd love to hear feedback about this (even if it's mean).
Based on the notes toward the end of the article on the limitations of a traditional OS with filesystem, I had this thought.
The OS clearly seems to be going in the direction of Smalltalk or a Lisp machine as an environment. What would it look like, or what would be the limitations of a merged OS/programming environment with something like a single SQLite DB as the filesystem?
- sedachv 10y ago> The OS clearly seems to be going in the direction of Smalltalk or a Lisp machine as an environment. What would it look like, or what would be the limitations of a merged OS/programming environment with something like a single SQLite DB as the filesystem? MUMPS, most 4GLs, RPG on the AS/400. I have not programmed in any of these but have heard a lot of bad things about them. Also I think it is a mistake to say the the OS is going in the direction of Lisp/Smalltalk. If anything, Linux containers/Docker is more like the IBM VM mainframe operating systems.
- greggyb 10y agoThe OS that the author is pointing toward
- VLM 10y agoIt would look a lot like emacs, one of those guys with 100+ buffers simultaneously open who does everything in emacs from git to IRC to controlling their music player. They get a lot of humor involuntarily applied to them, they also get a lot done. If you get the "privilege" of working on COBOL it has native record/DB storage ability which can make life get really weird. Not until Perl in the 90s did we have a DB API so closely and popularly tied to the language.