On Fri, 23 Oct 1998 chip(_at_)perlsupport(_dot_)com wrote:
According to Ilya Zakharevich:
Suppose you edit contents. How to make sure that the metadata of all
the users is updated?
If Emacs can do it, Perl can.
(The Xanadu system is designed to be distributed, and its solutions to
this problem are appropriately industrial-strength -- far stronger
than necessary for in-memory structures that Perl and Emacs maintain.)
I don't understand why we need to decide whether markup is in-band or
out-of-band. Can somebody explain this?
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"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
