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- From: dfs@doe.carleton.ca (David F. Skoll)
- Subject: Re: Why name your objects? (was Re: creating LISP ...)
- Message-ID: <dfs.712254169@ro>
- Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
- Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
- References: <1992Jun26.162734.13036@newshub.sdsu.edu> <12ft7kINNbb3@early-bird.think.com> <7011@skye.ed.ac.uk> <dfs.712009536@ro> <GUMBY.92Jul27051811@Cygnus.COM>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:22:49 GMT
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- In <GUMBY.92Jul27051811@Cygnus.COM> gumby@Cygnus.COM (David V.
- Henkel-Wallace) writes:
-
- [I wrote that naming objects makes it easy to read/write databases to disk.]
-
- >unless you have a very small database, or need to be able to read it
- >into many lisps, you probably won't want the time it takes to go
- >through the reader and the printer. Instead you want to make a
- >compiled file.
-
- Right. But we wanted the database to be human-readable and
- human-editable with a text editor. Also, we wanted to be able to
- translate to and from several other (non-Lisp) formats to our database
- format, and found that C/awk/sed tools were better than Lisp for doing
- the translation. That virtually mandated an ASCII database.
-
- --
- David F. Skoll
-