It feels that with none of the distributed programming languages or models that have existed succeeding, that we are still missing something fundamental about the problem.
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Distributed Erlang is a weird one here: it's a concurrent model extended with distribution but doesn't really bring any interesting insight regarding distribution.
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I used to think, and have for many years, that partial failure was the fundamental thing and that's what needed to be surfaced. I'm not sure I believe that anymore, I'm starting to think it's more about uncertainity instead. But, I don't know.
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@phickey introduced me to partial failure in 1997. I'm still fucked, @stevevinoski is probably still ( but less ) fucked. Let's have gluten free beer and pizza? The partial failure road is hard... We'll defeat it, or it'll defeat us, but we'll never be bored!
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