There was a good HN discussion when spark was first released: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3237478 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3237478 Severa

There was a good HN discussion when spark was first released: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3237478 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3237478 Several people ported it to other languages. Here was my humble effort: https://gist.github.com/quandyfactory/1368953 https://gist.github.com/quandyfactory/1368953