Comment by MichaelGG
12 years ago
I don't get it. That seems like a rather trivial library thing to add in most languages, at least ones that let you define operators. Otherwise you'd just fine top-level functions "configp" or whatnot.
Just like "one letter abbreviations". Again, just "let w = printf" if that's what you're into. I do that kind of stuff all the time, with limited scope.
The fact that easy persistent on-disk storage other than through file streams or sqlite and the like is still not a built-in feature or a commonly used library in languages in 2013 when MUMPS did this in 1960-something then that's more a commentary on the state of things not MUMPS than the other way round.
Sure, you can do import json; json.load(open('config.json')); json['foo'] and I have code like that in production right now, but put pickle in comparison to the above and I'd know which one seems nicer, and not least of all changing ^config("foo") is fully concurrent, caching, network transversable, auditable, with Caché supporting these things like an operating system should, but in a built-in way.