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>> Do you know if Poet is accessible from Smalltalk? No I don't think so (but I'm far from an expert on POET since I got flyer and just read it in passing). If I remember correctly all they talked about was C++, but then they may have another version for other OOP evironments (I would if I were them especially for Smalltalk and CLOS). It looked pretty neat. I forgot what I said the first time, but they said that one can use pointers to follow links between object as if they were in main memory, but the system knows how to dereference the pointer even to object not in main memory (somehow by turning it into an identifier which is used to look it up on disk… pretty neat I thought. Also they has ways of doing queries, locking, transactions etc. (and of course it was portable). All of this is accomplished by there special preprocessor I believe. Hope its useful info. Jody