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Thanks, you're right and my memory was fuzzy. But the strong claims like that in the paper are about trying to completely erase the local/remote difference, whi
by abecedarius 4y ago
Thanks, you're right and my memory was fuzzy. But the strong claims like that in the paper are about trying to completely erase the local/remote difference, which neither E nor Erlang did. Instead they reduced the pain in a way that this paper leaves an impression is not worth pursuing:
> Rather than using those resources in attempts to paper over the differences between the two kinds of computing, resources can be directed at improving the performance and reliability of each.
> ... it is a
mistake to attempt to construct a system that is “objects all
the way down” if one understands the goal as a distributed
system constructed of the same kind of objects all the way
down.
(E.g. in E the objects are the same kind; it's the references to objects that have two kinds.)