axs@cs.bham.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman) writes:
> jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes:
> > ....Is there a Pop with full-strength orthogonal
> > persistence? Is anybody working on one? Is there anything about Pop that
> > makes it impossible?
>
> I don't know precisely what you mean by "orthogonal persistence",
> but I'll guess that you mean being able to suspend a program and
> then restart it on another machine or in another version of the
> operating system or a later version of the Pop compiler system.
Keylink [1] have implemented an SQL interface between Poplog Prolog
and Ingres Oracle etc. This gives you a limited persistence
(amongst other things) for prolog programs. Of course, it's easy
peasy to call prolog from Pop11 :)
You can read about it in the Plug92 Proceedings which is, err, umm,
coming Real Soon Now.
Ian.
[1] Keylink Computers Ltd. 0926 50909
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