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it always surprises me when erlang is lumped in with the other functional languages. i know it technically qualifies as one, but if i had to round up the "mains
by zem 14y ago
it always surprises me when erlang is lumped in with the other functional languages. i know it technically qualifies as one, but if i had to round up the "mainstream" fp languages, i'd put ocaml, haskell, scala and clojure in one group, and erlang off to one side by itself.
- ludicast 14y agoAgreed, Erlang is a total weirdo. As a language is "bad weird", but as a platform is "good weird". Projects like Elixir are way exciting for this reason.
- zem 14y agoapart from the string handling, i actually liked erlang as a language. mailboxes and destructuring pattern matching are a very pleasant way to organise code.