Use hashtable for everything. So Person who has a name address age and occupation is represented as a hashtable with those fields. When you want to add a new fi

Use hashtable for everything. So Person who has a name address age and occupation is represented as a hashtable with those fields. When you want to add a new field like emailaddress it's just another key in the hashtable. Ideally you want to code the person accessors so that they still specific externally person-name person-age the rest of the program uses these so it becomes easy to move person to a different structure if that's what you want . You want to write some function to read a hash-table and write on to disc. In lisp this is trivial, but most languages have some sort of serializer. Then a function to load all the hash tables up when you start up.