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Sorry, I don't follow.

Accessing modules in Perl is a useful aspect of the language, but it's not necessarily integral to Perl itself.

Can you define these two language aspects?

The way I see it, we use language to tell the computer what we want it to do. So one piece of code chops a job up into smaller parts, from 3-4 to millions; and another piece of code runs the smaller piece and returns a result.

One way I can see that changes that viewpoint in a really interesting way would be for the computers to work something like a recycling plant -- large things are input, they are broken down, stripped, cleaned and reassembled into something new and useful.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

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Re^4: agents for distributed computation
by Joost (Canon) on Dec 21, 2007 at 17:16 UTC
    One way I can see that changes that viewpoint in a really interesting way would be for the computers to work something like a recycling plant -- large things are input, they are broken down, stripped, cleaned and reassembled into something new and useful.
    For a very straightforward and simple (yet useful) application of this idea see: mapreduce.

    update: there's a module on backpan, but none on search.cpan.org.