Re: Inline and MPICH

2002-03-13 Thread James Michael DuPont
Sam, I have been thinking about that for the past week. > Yurgh. WSDL is probably the most verbose function > definition language > I've ever seen. Yes it is really scary. >It's really only practical when > it's auto-generated. yes, and MS has a nice one for int VS.NET. > If you're in the

Re: Inline and MPICH

2002-03-13 Thread Sam Tregar
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, James Michael DuPont wrote: > On that note, what about SOAP for a different > transport and WSDL for defining interfaces? the WSDL > can spec out the ins and out of functions. Yurgh. WSDL is probably the most verbose function definition language I've ever seen. It's reall

Re: Inline and MPICH

2002-03-13 Thread Aaron J Mackey
It's a great idea; so great it's already (sort of) been done: see Parallel::MPI and Parallel::PVM at your local CPAN. -Aaron On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think this is one of the best ideas since Inline::C. It would make > prototyping distributed applications far easier.

Re: Inline and MPICH

2002-03-13 Thread James Michael DuPont
Second that. On that note, what about SOAP for a different transport and WSDL for defining interfaces? the WSDL can spec out the ins and out of functions. mike --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think this is one of the best ideas since > Inline::C. It would make > prototyping distributed applica

Re: Inline and MPICH

2002-03-13 Thread abyss
I think this is one of the best ideas since Inline::C. It would make prototyping distributed applications far easier. However, I don't know exactly how this would be integrated into the Inline package. It seems to me that a separate Perl package/API would make more sense. Best regards, -Jason

Inline and MPICH

2002-03-13 Thread Sean Quinlan
Just a thought I've brought up once or twice elsewhere. I don't expect this would work out of the box (hell, I personally wouldn't even know where to begin trying), but something I'd love to see. Could the MPICH library (http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich/, others?) be made useful to Perl usin