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Right my point is that the article cherrypicked a single thing and made a general claim about Erlang being a "true computer language" which is what I take umbra
by banachtarski 7y ago
Right my point is that the article cherrypicked a single thing and made a general claim about Erlang being a "true computer language" which is what I take umbrage to.
- okaleniuk 7y agoLanguage is something you can conduct a dialog in. In most of the computer languages you can't. I'm not saying that C++ (or any other) is in any way inferior to Erlang because of human-readable error messages. But this property to communicate back and forth in the same language is definitely interesting.
- banachtarski 7y agoRight but if you make the language as natural as possible for the human, you introduce layers of abstraction that make it difficult or impossible to understand what's happening at the machine level.