XPost: alt.os.development   
   From: maxim@storagecraft.com   
      
       I agree with you about fuzzy logic in the OS.   
      
       Fuzzy logic is good when there is uncertainity, on when the data is so   
   complex so it is better to consider it uncertain (a good sample of the latter   
   is "generic" optimizer algorithm to find the minimum of the unknown function   
   which has a vector of arguments, used in Postgres query optimizer among the   
   other things).   
      
   > pattern-matching based search for a file isn't fuzzy to me. BTW, a modern   
   > OS should have no files, but objects and containers of objects.   
      
   This looks utopic for me :-). Just imagine the backup tools for such an OS :-).   
      
   The OS must still have the "blockwise volume" paradigm, over which the "file"   
   paradigm is built, over which the "object" and "container" paradigms are built.   
   The apps can operate at the level they want.   
      
   Hiding the files at all will cause major headaches. Even now the question of   
   "how to move my Outlook Express data to another computer?" is rather complex -   
   and OE is a good sample of the app using the OO structures inside the files.   
      
   Pure OO paradigm is great on paper and is hardly compatible with the real life.   
   "The paper is smooth, but the real site has canyons".   
      
   --   
   Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP   
   StorageCraft Corporation   
   maxim@storagecraft.com   
   http://www.storagecraft.com   
      
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