[q-lang-users] nutty idea?

[Tim H. <q...@st...>]

Hi folks,

Been pondering. Over in the land of erlang, I gather they have ability to
distribute computation all over a cluster/network. Seems quite nice:

  * a connectivity daemon, 
  * network protocol for conveying requests & results back & forth, 
  * a system for identifying a node (`tim@somebox'), 
  * a shared-secret file (a la .Xauthority) for security, 
  * node-availability management, and 
  * an easy syntax for remoteifying expression-evaluation.

Guess what: I'm about to ask how hard it would be to slam all this into a
world-dominating future release of Q. :)

I'm also wondering if PVM could help out, but unless the nature of Q lends
itself to chunks of interpretation being carried-out on different machines
at an internal level, I'd doubt it was that much use. 

Any thoughts?

~Tim
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