Re: design goals vs mechanisms

[Brian Brunswick]

On 27/10/05, Marcus Brinkmann <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> [re persistence]
>
> At Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:38:06 +0200,
> Bas Wijnen <address@hidden> wrote:
> > mechanism for other goals.  I think we may want it as a goal by itself as
> > well (unplugging the computer without need for explicit recovery is a nice
> > thing), but probably low priority, so it may very well be dropped.
>
> To be perfectly honest: I think it's pretty cool, even for its own
> sake.  However, that is not really a good technical argument, and
> persistence doesn't come for free, so that's why I am putting my
> "careful hat" on.
>

I think its valuable from a user interface point of view. One of the
first unintuitive things (of many) that we teach people when using
computers is how to use "save". It would be better to be able to ditch
the concept entirely!

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