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Is this no true scottish languaging on what constitutes fp? More to the point with the original article, erlang is assuredly not OOP in the modern sense (no ma
by throwawaymaths 2y ago
Is this no true scottish languaging on what constitutes fp? More to the point with the original article, erlang is assuredly not OOP in the modern sense (no matter how much joe Armstrong tried to rope java shops in by saying that actors are actually the true objects)
Also:
> Erlang itself is pure
Very not true. erlang is extremely impure fp and that's a big part of what makes it what it is.
- whizzter 2y agoRight, and that's my point about practical languages that promotes a functional style being a better choice. The requirement for purity in Haskell (due to lazy evaluation) makes anything but purity a problem, it seems sometimes that just because things are possible to do purely it's the only way to do things according to adherents.
- zelphirkalt 2y agoIn the mainstream sense of what people understand OOP to be, yes, but actually Joe had Alan Kay on his side for the claim, that Erlang might be the most OO language. It is even recorded on video about a dialog they had on stage. What speaks for it is the focus on passing messages to other actors, which act as if they are separate little computers. All very similar to Kay's descriptions of OOP.