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   by jpbf 19y ago

   I'm interested in this part: "Steele and Sussman tried to start over when they first began working on Scheme, but they seem to have been practically the only ones. And they made, at least from the point of view of brevity/power, some seriou
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   by jpbf 19y ago

   You said: As bayareaguy noted: "You have to read the original article very closely or you'll miss their point: in terms of distributed database research, MapReduce is a step backwards." This to me is really funny since I don't think you can
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   by jpbf 19y ago

   Have you read the original article? They are really comparing some abstract MapReduce with RDBMSs and saying: MapReduce sux its not relational. And from my perspective making an ass out of themselves. Some quotes: "we have serious doubts ab
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   by jpbf 19y ago

   Sure the guy is academically merited. But it's not the first time he compares apples to pears. http://dlweinreb.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/object-oriented-da... This everything must be a RDBMS viewpoint seem rather rigid.