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I'm very curious as to why Ruby was used instead of something like Erlang which was explicitly (roughly) designed for the situation he describes.
by omouse 18y ago
I'm very curious as to why Ruby was used instead of something like Erlang which was explicitly (roughly) designed for the situation he describes.
- llimllib 18y agoWell, according to the article it's because it is easy to generate DSLs with, which Erlang is not. Am I missing anything?
- iloveyouocean 18y agoErlang = easy to parallelize computer operations. Ruby = easy to parallelize development. In a situation where you have plenty of money (like DARPA) and therefore plenty of hardware, people are the bottleneck. This article is about diminishing the people bottleneck, which is the actual 'situation he describes'.
- babo 18y agoHmmm, you mean Haskell? Erlang is not designed for that kind of job, it's far from appropriate for that kind of work.