Prof. Pedersen : My personal favorite for any text processing task would be Python. I understand Python also has a Hadoop wrapper. Are there similar issues with Hadoop Python as with Java ?
--Regards, Denzil On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Ted Pedersen <duluth...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is a note I posted to the corpora list that summarizes at a high > level what I've learned about Hadoop after a semester long adventure > (this spring, in my Computer Architecture class). As you will see > below, I'd like to get away from using Java - I think the students > found that horribly frustrating (and some of them were very good Java > programmers). I'm very keen on Pig as an alternative, but am open to > other suggestions. Do tell if you have a particular favorite > alternative. >