I think two things about my question are implicit that I will now make explicit:
  • I like the database idea. The only catch is state preservation. In a language like Lisp, where data and function are interchangeable and all data and function has a unique printed representation, executable "codelets" can be written and positions and the "codelets" stores in a tilly-esque transaction. In perl, code blocks do not have a printed and re-executable representation unless you break down to string manipulations to create and eval your code, which is highly unstructured and error-prone.
  • What we have hear is what Douglas Hofstadter defined as GOD in "Goedel, Escher, Bach, the Eternal Golden Braid." GOD == God Over Djinn. So each god has a higher God ad infinitum. Once you have the database serving as a god for the simple perl code, you have to ask who is the God for the database code? And then God for that?

    And then we conclude that linear thinking leads to the unreal, impossible, and irrational concept known as infinity --- scientfic man's attempt to justify a day-to-day practical form of reasoning (linear) when cyclical reasoning is actually a bit more suited to reasoning about Universal truths.

    In reply to RE: Re (tilly) 1: Mechanisms for Fault-Tolerant Perl Scripting by princepawn
    in thread Mechanisms for Fault-Tolerant Perl Scripting by princepawn

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