On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Dan Brickley <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 31 October 2011 17:27, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think this would be very interesting to see. Whether it should be part > > of Mahout or a separate project is an open question. > > > > PIG, is, unfortunately not a real language in the sense of turing > > completion or extensibility. It is good at what it does, but not at > being > > extended to do more. > > ...although you can call out to functions defined in Java, Python etc. > This doesn't make the top level language into a programming language, > though. Was that your point, Ted? > > Yes. That was the point. Calling out is different from being able to control the process from the outside in.
