On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 09:42 -0700, Ricky Ho wrote: > 1) I can pick the language that offers a different programming > paradigm (e.g. I may choose functional language, or logic programming > if they suit the problem better). In fact, I can even chosen Erlang > at the map() and Prolog at the reduce(). Mix and match can optimize > me more.
Agreed (as someone who has written mappers/reducers in Python, perl, shell script and Scheme before).
