It's like that old Joel Spolsky article[0] says: > you only have to get one supergenius to write the hard code to run map and reduce on a global massively para

It's like that old Joel Spolsky article[0] says: > you only have to get one supergenius to write the hard code to run map and reduce on a global massively parallel array of computers, and all the old code that used to work fine when you just ran a loop still works only it’s a zillion times faster which means it can be used to tackle huge problems in an instant If you can replace the thing that people use with a distributed version, then that can make it easy to write distributed code. [0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/08/01/can-your-programming-language-do-this https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/08/01/can-your-programmi...