Though enterprise users with heavy demand and big budgets might be willing to pay for a commercial system and all the tools, support, and service agreements those systems provide, users with more modest budgets or requirements find open source systems more attractive. – Stonebraker et al, MapReduce and Parallel DBMSs: Friends or Foes? Communications of [...]
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Predicate logic plus message passing?
Right now I think it would be really nice to go back to the roots of Erlang and add Prolog-like predicate logic to the language, a kind of new mixture of predicate logic plus message passing. — Joe Armstrong, Creator of Erlang (link) Software frameworks come into existence when general purpose languages are adapted for [...]
