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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 sl
by OkayPhysicist 4y 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."
- giancarlostoro 4y agoThat's the one! Thank you! I didn't realize it was from one of the founders of the language, which actually makes a LOT of sense. I wonder what tech he saw back then that made him think of it, I can only come up with more modern examples.
- OkayPhysicist 4y agoHe was writing in 2008, so probably some Java thing http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2008-January/032226.html http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2008-January/03...
- giancarlostoro 4y agoI saw the quote attributed to a book they wrote back in the late 90s as well, but I'm not sure how accurate the attribution is... If it is accurate, I'm genuinely curious what project in the 90s was remotely comparable. The answer could be as simple as whatever they were using prior to creating Erlang.