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Alan Gates commented on PIG-928:
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bq. FWIW - I would rather few languages were supported, and were fast, than
support a lot of languages that are all unusably slow. Ten times slower than
Pig is in the unusable range, imo.
+1
I think if we can get Python going and make it easy to add Ruby, we'll have
satisfied 90% of the potential users. I've had a number of people ask me
directly if they could program in either of those languages. I've never had
anyone say they wish they could write UDFs in groovy or java script. I think
people will pay a 2x cost for Python or Ruby. I don't think they'll pay 10x.
> UDFs in scripting languages
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> Key: PIG-928
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-928
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Alan Gates
> Attachments: package.zip, scripting.tgz, scripting.tgz
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> It should be possible to write UDFs in scripting languages such as python,
> ruby, etc. This frees users from needing to compile Java, generate a jar,
> etc. It also opens Pig to programmers who prefer scripting languages over
> Java.
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