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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Distributed Systems Annex, data sharing between programs
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On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 04:40:41 -0700 (PDT), Maciej Sobczak wrote:

> On 6 Cze, 12:09, Niklas Holsti <niklas.hol...@tidorum.invalid> wrote:
> 
>>> This is what makes single-language-distributed-systems solutions kind
>>> of pointless.
>>
>> The fact that *some* distributed systems are multi-language does not
>> mean that a single-language solution is pointless. Insufficient, perhaps.
> 
> Single-language systems (A) are a subset of multi-language systems
> (B).

Code distribution is only one role of the middleware, at least in process
automation. Integration of components and devices is usually more
important. It is not even B, the other side might be not a programmable
system and almost always just a black box.

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