Pipes are wonderful. They are doing wonderful things. - Joe Armstrong

Don't be deluded into thinking that is sort of ultimately fault tolerant. You can only provision it for the faulty things that might happen and then for a large class of things it could happen.

Meta-Programming Erlang is not really easy because of the way the trees are parsed.

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.