On Jul 17, 8:29 am, Andy Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: > You're mis-parsing the sentence. Note that they even tell you what > they mean by "take care of messy details". > > Let's look at another example. MS's Visual {whatever} documentation > claims that it makes programming easy. Do you think that that claim > implies that using said product will let anyone produce an O(N) > solution to an NP-complete problem?
I'm sorry, but "you don't have to worry about any of that" right after a description of a massively distributed database is a much stronger, more specific statement than your strawman, and it's also demonstrably untrue. > > > I worked in a distributed systems group for many years, so I know that > > many of these problems are simply inherent to distributed systems. It > > doesn't disturb me that they exist. > > You're complaining that GAE doesn't solve them. Where, specifically? You seem to be reacting to this statement: """ I'm starting to think that the "GAE takes care of the messy details of distributed systems programming" claim is a bit overstated... """ You may notice that I'm criticizing GAE's advertising, not its implementation. Cheers, -n8 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
