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Is Erlang functional programming? Anything in an Ets table is a global variable. There's even mutable state hiding in the process dictionary! You might have
by throwawaymaths 4y ago
Is Erlang functional programming? Anything in an Ets table is a global variable. There's even mutable state hiding in the process dictionary! You might have to access a database, which is global state! The horrors!
- zelphirkalt 4y agoIn Joe Armstrong's own words: Erlang is either the most object-oriented or the least object-oriented language. It also very much discourages mutation and favors pattern matching and pure functions, so I would say it is quite FP in nature.