Talk:Distributed programming: Difference between revisions

Hi. I wrote the original task. My intent was that it should show the use of ''distributed programming'' as opposed to simply being able to use the network — we have other tasks for that. The facilities used to accomplish the task should be suitable for ''performing a complex task distributed across several machines''. Or something like that. Trying to be sufficiently specific about sufficiently general, I'd say it should be a protocol/library which at least supports a reasonable set of common data structures, and preferably has a notion of messages/RPCs, such that the author of the example does not have to ''invent a protocol'', especially not a data serialization scheme, as opposed to just spreading their program across the network.