OpenEuphoria

Re: Checkpoint

• Posted by rforno at tutopia.com Nov 02, 2001
• 469 views

I still don't agree. An office suite is a single system with many users. If
for every program written in EU you must go to a specialized routine for
this program to save the status, you will end up with a big work load.
Many generalized programs, languages and operating systems have this
facility. To mention only a few, there are the SORT programs for mainframes,
and the APL language, to which somewhere it is said EUPHORIA has some
resemblance.
----- Original Message -----
From: <munchr at mac.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: Checkpoint


>
> 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.
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