Re:Keeping CALM: when distributed consistency is easy
by jerf on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @10:25AM
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"I don't think we disagree. "
We do not. I meant more as elaboration, not outright disagreement. It is a great idea to apply these ideas today, but it's really hard, and I'd still love to see someone fix that. And maybe some other things as they go. But in the meantime, programmers of today really can't afford to wait to apply these principles.
I guess my point is that I agree that YAPL that just has this in it and is basically thrown out as a hack for writing a couple of papers is not very useful, but I'd love to see someone set out to create the Next Big Programming Language that incorporates this idea, as well as other things, but isn't just a demonstration project.
We do not. I meant more as elaboration, not outright disagreement. It is a great idea to apply these ideas today, but it's really hard, and I'd still love to see someone fix that. And maybe some other things as they go. But in the meantime, programmers of today really can't afford to wait to apply these principles.
I guess my point is that I agree that YAPL that just has this in it and is basically thrown out as a hack for writing a couple of papers is not very useful, but I'd love to see someone set out to create the Next Big Programming Language that incorporates this idea, as well as other things, but isn't just a demonstration project.