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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.