Primitive streams

[Remi Forax]

On 12/29/2012 07:38 PM, Doug Lea wrote:
> On 12/29/12 13:00, Remi Forax wrote:
>
>> Now, I dislike fused operations because it goes against the DRY 
>> principle, the
>> stream interface should be as simple as possible,
>
> Two different reactions:
>
> 1. Why do Streams combine function composition and aggregate computation
> when it would be simpler not to?
> (answer: prettier look-and-feel?)
>
> 2. Why does every other map-reduce framework support mapReduce?
> (answer: to reflect the fact that map-reduce is a fused concept for
> most people?)

I don't think Clojure as a mapReduce, neither Python nor Ruby.
Of course, MapReduce exists as a programming model for distributed 
computing.

>
> -Doug
>

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