On: The Elephant was a Trojan Horse: On the Death of M...

[walshemj]

Fortran or PL/1G gets my vote writing Map Reduce in java is painful compared to PL/1G mappers I was writing back in the 80's on PR1ME mini computers.

[shiven → walshemj]

Wait, what? A distributed file system written in Fortran? Is it even possible in a language like that?

[gtirloni → shiven]

Possibly yes, since it can interoperate with C. That's not what most people use it for (networking) so you would be swimming against the current.

I don't think it would attract a following among developers anyway... perhaps if you emphasize it compiles to Javascript, who knows ;)

[walshemj → shiven]

no my bad thought that they where asking what would you use instead of java for he mapper/reducer code.

having said that at BT we did have a distributed ISAM database where the core code was F77!