1. Re: Checkpoint
- Posted by munchr at mac.com
Nov 01, 2001
Program and data recovery from power failure, or any other catastrophic
accident should be the responsibility of the program itself, not the
programming language. It should not be that difficult to write your own
routine to save your program state to a file. Office suites tend to do it all
the time without any difficulty, and without any assistance from the
language they are written in. RDS is responsible for creating a working
stable product for the rest of us. Program capabilities such as this are
our own responsibility.
I don't mean to sound harsh about this, but I'm tired of seeing requests
for features that would be more productively solved by the requester
themselves, than by asking for RDS to implement features that will
likely be used by only a few people.
At 11:38 PM 10/31/2001 -0300, rforno wrote:
>
>Rob:
>I think that it would be very useful the ability to write a checkpoint or
>snapshot to disk at a certain point in the program, so that if, for example,
>the power fails, it can be reinitiated at the point of failure without
>losing the computations already done. It will serve also some other
>purposes, like adjoining data such as bitmaps to the code. Probably this
>will need also a function that can check if a declared variable has been
>initialized or not.
