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I don't have any experience with Erlang but on a side note Elixir is really an awesome language. Pattern matching is one of the neatest features I have ever use

by n0us 11y ago

I don't have any experience with Erlang but on a side note Elixir is really an awesome language. Pattern matching is one of the neatest features I have ever used and I recommend anyone to try it out.

rvirding 11y ago
They got that from Erlang :-)
- bpicolo 11y ago
  Who got it from elsewhere ;D
  - rvirding 11y ago
    Who got it from elsewhere. ;-) The sequential part of Erlang is basically a simple functional language with nothing really unique, except maybe for binaries. It is the concurrency and error handling where the really good bits are.
    - crimsonalucard 11y ago
      Who did it come from? Haskell? ML?
      - signa11 11y ago
        according to wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_matching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_matching) SNOBOL in '62
        fanf2 11y ago
        SNOBOL pattern matching is on strings; SASL is the origin of pattern matching on algebraic data types.