Owen, Is binary streaming actually readily available? Looking at http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3227, it appears uncommitted.
- Aaron On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Tim Wintle <tim.win...@teamrubber.com>wrote: > 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). > >
