From: "Richard Elberger" <richelbe@richelberger.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: RE: [9fans] source code as data not text
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 09:03:42 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JNENKONOPMBLIHLMIJEDOEKKCBAA.richelbe@richelberger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200106182131.WAA02827@localhost.localdomain>
>
>As has been pointed out, how something is stored isn't that relevant
>here; the issue is *what*, and the principle issue is whether your
>program is stored as ascii source, or as some other representation
>(that presumably adds additional structuring, else why bother?)
>
>If you're storing an ascii file, then whether you store it in
>a cvs-like system, an RDBMS or something entirely different isn't
>that much more important than whether it's stored in a file system
>that's on a local disk or a networked one: you may need to use
>special means to retrieve it, but that's your call.
>
How something is stored is very relevant to source management -- you'd
better ask the operations folks who have to run the hardware and are
responsible for maintaining data integrity.
-- rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-19 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <dhog@plan9.bell-labs.com>
2001-06-18 18:48 ` David Gordon Hogan
2001-06-18 21:31 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-06-19 21:03 ` Richard Elberger [this message]
2001-06-19 21:31 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-06-19 7:36 ` Richard Elberger
2001-06-28 22:17 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-07-11 17:53 ` [9fans] sam vs acme David Gordon Hogan
2001-07-11 19:19 ` James A. Robinson
2001-07-11 21:15 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-07-11 23:11 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-01 21:19 ` [9fans] Virtual memory in BSD and Plan9 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-01 21:23 ` Scott Schwartz
2001-11-21 0:12 ` [9fans] on TCP vs IL David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-21 0:21 ` George Michaelson
2001-11-22 9:57 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-23 9:34 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-11-26 10:00 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-26 15:21 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-12-07 19:41 ` [9fans] libXg/test.c David Gordon Hogan
2001-12-07 20:08 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-12-07 20:09 ` Scott Schwartz
2001-12-07 20:28 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-12-10 10:01 ` Maarit Maliniemi
2001-12-11 16:51 ` Leo Caves
2002-09-17 22:04 ` [9fans] /sys/src/^(9 boot)^/pc/memory.c David Gordon Hogan
2002-09-17 22:08 ` Scott Schwartz
2001-06-28 21:17 [9fans] source code as data not text Boyd Roberts
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-18 15:24 anothy
2001-06-19 3:52 ` Richard Elberger
2001-06-18 14:45 anothy
2001-06-19 16:51 ` Barry
2001-06-18 7:45 nigel
2001-06-18 7:43 nigel
2001-06-18 9:07 ` Laura Creighton
2001-06-28 21:00 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-06-28 22:02 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-06-18 0:31 Matt
2001-06-18 8:52 ` Laura Creighton
2001-06-18 9:13 ` Matt
2001-06-18 10:02 ` Richard Elberger
2001-06-18 14:56 ` Dan Cross
2001-06-28 21:56 ` Boyd Roberts
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