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The point he's making is that Erlang grew organically into its current form by way of continual sculpting during use by its creators I've never really designed
by chops 17y ago
The point he's making is that Erlang grew organically into its current form by way of continual sculpting during use by its creators
I've never really designed a serious language before, aren't almost all languages done this way?
- silentbicycle 17y agoHe's contrasting it to languages that are closely based on a mathematical ideal, such as Haskell (pure functional programming, category theory, etc.) or Prolog (Horn clauses and logic), minimalistic Scheme/Lisps (lambda calculus) or, to a lesser extent, SQL (relational theory, albeit a far from perfect implementation).