Comment by axus
1 day ago
What a well-written account of "how things are done".
> Time to drop a bit of a bombshell: the [Barbara] source code is in Barbara too, not on disk. Remain composed. It's kept in a special Barbara ring called sourcecode.
1 day ago
What a well-written account of "how things are done".
> Time to drop a bit of a bombshell: the [Barbara] source code is in Barbara too, not on disk. Remain composed. It's kept in a special Barbara ring called sourcecode.
This makes it feel like a gigantic Smalltalk instance.
Interestingly, after writing this (some years ago) I spoke to some of the original authors. They had never used Smalltalk. So I suppose they invented this stuff independently
Could be. I got the same vibes with Zope, which is Python and has an object database underneath it. At the time I had the impression the idea was popular in finance.
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