http://okmij.org/ftp/papers/DreamOSPaper.html by Oleg Kiselyov
If the OS was represented as a big database, it would be a lot easier to interact with it. For example, if I want a list of files with specific tags:
> select * from files where .tags contain ["music", "creative", "tool"]Right now there is no easy way to do this kind of search. You might have to do something like:
> find / -opt1 "something" -opt2 "somethingElse"Or worse, you might have to code your own program to do it.
This is extremely unnatural (and slow) compare to SQL.