Re: Rethinking files as a concept -- review draft paper

[Josh Marshall]

Thanks!  No matter what spelling and grammar checkers I seem to pass it through, there always seems to be many things missed.  I'll fix those up and improve the notation as you suggest.  As for the Windows pathing support, I'm not settled on the idea but figured I'd keep it more abstracted.  I'm starting to lean towards a URL or something, even for local files.  I'm going to make a number of fixes, add more example files, expand the grammar somewhat, add some operational and file merge rules, and add API interfaces.  The other feedback I've been getting is that the core concept is clear and solid.  And typos.

On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 10:26 AM Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> wrote:

Thanks for sharing, nice write up!

A few notes below:

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Scheme: A group of programming languages which are major branch of the
Common LISP dialets.
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Typo: dialects.
Also I think it should say "major branch of the Lisp dialects".  Scheme
is not a branch of Common Lisp as far as I understand.

The LISP casing is often considered deprecated, you may prefer Lisp instead.

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Object Storage: A method of storing files without paths e.g. ”C:\\Users\Ad-
min\Desktop\word-doc.rtf”.
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A Windows path?!? :)

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legacy .rom files
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Which format is that?

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Web development has moved towards JSON like serialization
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Typo: JSON-like

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and lowerers developer effort.
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Typo: lowers

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Recognizers have two steps levels
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Typo: two levels?

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Decrypting data is delegated tothe host by default
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Typo: to the

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Bit Torrent
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Typo: BitTorrent (no space)

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Distributed Files systems
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Typo: distributed file systems
(Maybe lower case?)

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a more granular mannar
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Typo: manner

Cheers!

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Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/