Martin Drautzburg schrieb: > Hello all, > > I've seen various attempts to add distributed computing capabilities on top > of an existing language. For a true distributed system I would expect it to > be possible to instantiate objects of a remote class or to subclass a > remote class and other stuff like this. My impression is that those things > are difficult when built on top of an existing language. > > Since the paradigm "everything is an object" pays so well, I thought it > might be less painful to implement a distributed system from ground up, > starting with the paradigm: "everything is a distributed object". > > Do you know if such a thing has been attempted with python, i.e. by hacking > the python core and add new capabilities to "object". Or do you think that > this is really a silly idea ?
Pyro is pretty neat in that respect. And besides that, I think it is a rather silly idea. In such an environment, immediately issues about concurrency, connection failures and sychronous/asynchronous execution arise, adding tremendously to the complexity of even the simplest of tasks. And thus should be kept out of those simple tasks... A natural integration of concurrency as in erlang, or with pyro, is a good thing(tm), but not as base principle, IMHO. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
