I don't like modules. It's a sort of love/hate relationship. The problem with modules is the classification problem. When you have written a function… - Joe Armstrong

Why are people just moving the data and not the programs. We could move both of them to some intermediate point in the middle to perform the computation there.

If you imagine the combination of petabytes memories with LiFi and communication at tens of gigabits per second but the combination and like 10,000 Cray-Ones and a little thing like your fingernail everywhere in every single light bulb that’s like an atomic bomb hitting software. What we’re going to do with it, nobody’s got a clue.

Defensive programming in C, is only necessary because you have only have a single thread of computation. If you have a sequential language and it crashes, you lost everything.