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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to Waldek Hebisch   
   Re: And so? (VMS/XDE)   
   14 Dec 25 01:37:42   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 30 Nov 2025 22:18:07 -0000 (UTC), Waldek Hebisch wrote:   
      
   > Chris Townley  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On 30/11/2025 21:09, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> The selling point is the automatic persistence of global variables:   
   >>>   
   >> Why would you want that?   
   >   
   > Think database.  MUMPS globals really are a non-relational database.   
   > Non-persistent database would be of limited use.   
      
   Quite easy to do in Python. Being able to implement this on top of more   
   general underlying features is how Python is able to keep its core   
   language so small.   
      
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