| This reminds me of UserLands "Frontier", a Mac product from the early 90s. It was a scripting language and object database. Current execution state and scripts themselves lived in the database. In 91 or so it was taking advantage of the macs flat address space to do rpc between itself and apps (I wrote a module that let you receive events from the finder). Around 94, Dave (Winer, the author) was using to handle cgi scripts in "usertalk" its native language, from WebStar, a Mac web server. People would set up web based workflow to (then Mac only) apps like FileMaker and debabelizer. A few years after that, Dave realized he could be the server himself, and created an app that was basically a webserver living on localhost and let you edit locally and publish your weblogs to a static host. So, not the same because it's not flat files, but with similar possibilities. (And a call out to Macintosh Programmers Workshop, which was UNIX like, but allowed selections within arbitrary files be treated as first class files - you could execute a command to take select portion of window 1, pass it to the compiler a land redirect error messages to a section of which now 2. Many a build system came to life this way... Sorry nostalgia...) |