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Author confuses standard math notation with erlang, missing the fact that other, more pure, functional programming languages even more closely resemble math not

• old_sound 10y ago
  Commenter confuses satire with serious article. Assumes author doesn't know about functional languages. Nothing to see here.
• rdtsc 10y ago
  > Author confuses standard math notation with erlang, missing the fact that other, The article is silly whimsy, you know that? Knowing the author from online presence, I can assure you the author doesn't really think Knuth was writing Erlang at that time. > that other, more pure, functional programming languages Maybe the author doesn't care about other more pure functional programming languages. They care about Erlang so they wrote about it.