Don Stewart
jason.dusek:
What does Haskell have to say about cloud computing?
I'm not sure cloud computing is well-enough defined to say anything yet.
That is fair -- having something to say about cloud computing is essentially having a grand vision. I only ask because it was touched on in the original message.
...we're talking about JSON, online db services like Amazon bindings, HAppS nodes, et al. For which Haskell's perfectly able.
Do HAppS nodes really function as nodes in a larger system? Does HAppS function as a "cluster application server"?
Now, maybe there's some nice abstractions waiting to be found though...
Conventionally, it is argued that the abstraction of choice is message passing; but that isn't going to take you anywhere near having a web page that people can see twice without some more abstraction. I would like to say that distributed version control is that abstraction -- that branches with a main trunk are a model for resources that is compatible with dirty-write as well as consistent read. However, as systems become more desirable from a maintenance point of view -- self-healing, easily expandable, fault tolerant -- it becomes ever more difficult to get the transactionality you need to have a main trunk. -- _jsn