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People are mentioning the Lisp-y nature of this writing, even if is not about Lisp. Is this not specifically something from Erlang, with message-based communic
by 616c 13y ago
People are mentioning the Lisp-y nature of this writing, even if is not about Lisp. Is this not specifically something from Erlang, with message-based communication? Granted, this article is short on where that shines in Erlang, cross-process/cross-thread communication.
- ramy_d 13y agoI don't see erlang mentioned at all, yet he's talking specifically about things erlang can do.
- adambard 13y agoOr, more generally, any "actor" concurrency system. It's built-in in Erlang, you can use Akka in the JVM, there's just a ton of options for message-passing concurrency in Clojure, Go channels offer something similar, and pretty much every language you can think of has some library implementing it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model#Actor_libraries_and_frameworks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model#Actor_libraries_and...