[M3devel] random-acces I/O

[Dragiša Durić]

On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 12:53 +0100, Olaf Wagner wrote:
...
> > By the way, smarteiffel seems to be just as deficient.  It's as if
> > language designers never encounter database implementers.
> 
> It's probably only needed for database implementation, and those
> are added as third-party-products ;-)

  Can, not must :)

  One of our development lines is OODBMS - m3/db2, working pretty well,
and older version runs few apps. Current version is cca 10,000 lines and
it's feature list is nice one :). Our plan is to finish it and publish
it, some of these days, months, ... :)

> 
> There was a research paper on the design of the IO classes;
> I think it may be

  These are good standard high-level IO classess. Original poster has to
look at File.T, there is all he needs.

> 
>     
> ftp://gatekeeper.research.compaq.com/pub/DEC/SRC/research-reports/abstracts/src-rr-053.html
> 
> from the M3 bibliography. I don't remember if random I/O was a
> topic there though.
> 
> Olaf
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