BLOOM language for distributed programming (BOOM project)

boom.cs.berkeley.edu

6 points by owlpic 14 years ago · 5 comments

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owlpicOP 14 years ago

Also see the ruby DSL: http://www.bloom-lang.net/

dfc 14 years ago

Also see? That link is the same thing isn't it?

tluyben2 14 years ago

Bloom, Boom, Bud, Overlog, Dedalus. Lot of new things here (for me at least).

But (not flaming, just asking) why Ruby? Is that a good choice for this project, or is it just research anyway so it doesn't matter?

mr_eel 14 years ago

My interpretation is that they have chosen Ruby explicitly in order to validate the general approach and to make understanding it tractable to the average practitioner i.e. a programmer doesn't have to learn a new language to learn a new paradigm.
- tluyben2 14 years ago
  
  I must have a mental issue as I get happy when I see prolog/datalog derivatives and unhappy when I see ruby-like stuff. I might be very lonely in that regard :)