What a well-written account of "how things are done".
> Time to drop a bit of a bombshell: the [Barbara] source code is in Barbara too, not on disk. Remain composed. It's kept in a special Barbara ring called sourcecode.
>Applications also commonly store their internal state in Barbara - writing dataclasses straight in and out with only very simple locking and transactions (if any).
Right out of the gates, it's crazy how this contrasts with Mercury's Haskell infra
> Time to drop a bit of a bombshell: the [Barbara] source code is in Barbara too, not on disk. Remain composed. It's kept in a special Barbara ring called sourcecode.
Right out of the gates, it's crazy how this contrasts with Mercury's Haskell infra
https://blog.haskell.org/a-couple-million-lines-of-haskell/