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After looking into Erlang for a while now (still in chapter 3 of ERLANG Programming by Francesco Cesarini) I have to state that writing something this big in E

• bitdiddle 16y ago
  interesting, I actually like it. The syntax took some getting used to but I find with functional languages I think more and write a lot less and spend a lot less time debugging. I found Armstrong's book useful also, as well as the tutorial at erlang.org When you consider all that's in CouchDB, the smallness of the code base is impressive. I think that's a direct consequence of the choice of Erlang.
• jamii 16y ago
  > Erlang is not really that fun or exciting to use It depends what you use it for. Its brilliant for infrastructure - software that has to live forever and survive no matter what gets thrown at it. It makes a lot of the hard problems go away so you can focus on the fun and exciting stuff.