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by yorhel 4740 days ago
Agree with the article; Linda is great, both the name and the project. It was one of the more interesting topics of a Distributed Systems course that I followed, but I never ended up using it (or its concepts) in practice due to the performance overhead.

As a nitpick: Perl is originally not an acronym, the language used to be called "Pearl". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl#Name