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Virding's First Rule of Programming: Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slo
by outlog 8y ago
Virding's First Rule of Programming:
Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang.
https://rvirding.blogspot.com/2008/01/virdings-first-rule-of-programming.html https://rvirding.blogspot.com/2008/01/virdings-first-rule-of...
(he is one of the creators of erlang / stars in Erlang the Movie)
- TurboHaskal 8y agoThat's funny, considering that the reason I'm doing concurrent programming in "another language" is due to Erlang's poor performance.
- nickh9000 8y agoErlang is not a panacea. It excels as a middle layer, one that orchestrates work. It's not a tool to perform intensive calculations.