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Shark8 writes on comp.lang.ada:
> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> For projects of many hundred files, it is a huge problem. Especially
>> when you have hundreds of generic package instances popping
>> everywhere. Pushing files into different directories makes things
>> only worse. The point is, when browsing a project you are not
>> interested in files, you are looking for Ada units, and it is
>> absolutely irrelevant what is the file name of that unit. In fact, if
>> the source control systems were not so retarded, we would have no
>> files at all, just versions of units stored in a database.
>
> Spot on. Having the code be a bunch of versions in a DB would be
> fantastic as far as development/searching would be; it would be even
> better if the code itself were, for lack of a better phrase, a set of
> stored-tokens (instead of plain text) as this would allow different
> programmers to apply personalized formatting to the source without
> causing (what would be in text-files) a change resulting in another
> version.

Wasn't that how the Rational R1000 machine worked?

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.