ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Ray Dunn) wrote:
> I have no recollection of Pop10, but POP-2 (please notice the capitalisation
> and the hyphen) for the PDP10 (later known as the DECsystem 10) was
> implemented by myself and Malcolm Atkinson (now of Cambridge) in 1970 or
> 1971.
Malcolm's a professor in this department, and was in Edinburgh for a while
before that; hasn't worked at Cambridge since 1980-ish. His current
research is persistent programming languages, persistent-store-based system
architectures, OODBs, that sort of thing.
Which suggests a question. Is there a Pop with full-strength orthogonal
persistence? Is anybody working on one? Is there anything about Pop that
makes it impossible?
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