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In a talk he admitted that Erlang is the unification of OO and FP, although he didn’t realize it when he created the language. He also mentioned Hoare‘s CSP as
by dgb23 5y ago
In a talk he admitted that Erlang is the unification of OO and FP, although he didn’t realize it when he created the language.
He also mentioned Hoare‘s CSP as an inspiration with the caveat that he didn’t agree with the lock-step synchronization as messages should be async. Makes sense from a physicist‘s perspective.
- dnautics 5y agoI'm sorry, I have a lot of respect for Joe Armstrong but this is simply something he got wrong, probably because he didn't fully understand smalltalk objects. Before he 'admitted' as such, he understandably thought OO was stroustrop style OO. Then someone pointed out to him that originally OO was smalltalk OO, which admittedly looks vaguely like erlang message passing. But there are critical differences.