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1. Alex Schroeder 🐝 (kensanata@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2017 14:17:56 UTC Alex Schroeder 🐝

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   • Nate Cull

   @vertigo @natecull If you look at the early Oracle stuff, you'll find a total parallel world for all the things we just take for granted. datafiles, tablespaces, db blocks, extents, segments, roles, TNS, and so on. It's all a duplicate world from an alternate universe because it was developed at a time when VMS was great and the Internet and Unix hasn't dominated everything. It's like the Emacs UI which got started before current GUIs so you have frames, windows, kill, yank, point, buffer, etc.

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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2017 00:49:10 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • Nate Cull
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     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Informix_C-ISAM
     
     > C-ISAM provides the underlying file storage mechanism of the Informix Standard Engine RDBMS.
     
     OMG I have seen NoSQL and column-oriented DBMS and it is COBOL on flat files.
     
     "All this has happened before, and will happen again."
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2017 00:57:57 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • Nate Cull
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     Forthiness + data algebra + persistence = #picolisp
     
     https://software-lab.de/doc/tut.html#db
     https://software-lab.de/doc/tut.html#pilog