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Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:

> Shark8 writes on comp.lang.ada:

>> 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?

Exactly so. Except you didn't get to apply personalised formatting; thus
eliminating at a stroke a whole class of religious strife.

(Actually, I don't remember what if any VCS style was supported; I never
got to use it for a real project, just an evaluation, and we hadn't
heard of VCSs then).