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Yes, and you will end up reimplementing a lot of what is already in Erlang and most likely not as well either. Virding's 1st rule.

hapless 13y ago
This is true, but it misses the point: Erlang is missing enough things that this fellow would rather rewrite OTP in Lua than deal with Erlang. e.g. string handling
- rvirding 13y ago
  From personal experience implementing the string handling is trivial compared to implementing the system side of Erlang. Get real.
  - davidw 13y ago
    For those following along at home, rvirding is one of the inventors of Erlang. Robert - one of the things that occasionally bothers me about Erlang is that if something like string handling is so trivial, then it should be made available as a more extensive library, rather than an exercise that leaves the reader wishing they were using another language that handles boring stuff like that. It may well not be trivial for the person just get started with it, and you've lost a user if they give up in frustration. Here's one of the other inventors of the language asking for help about splitting a string, for instance: http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-February/077417.html http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-February/0...
    - gordonguthrie 13y ago
      Well not quite splitting a string, using regexs. Regexs are The language Satan communicates with his minions in...
- digitalzombie 13y ago
  Someone implemented a DSL lua on Erlang VM already.
  - gordonguthrie 13y ago
    That'll be Robert Virding (see comment below) lol
    - rvirding 13y ago
      Yes, that's me. Where is the "comment below"? Couldn't find it. I just want to point out that I don't dislike Lua at all, it is a small neat language with some very nice features. It just isn't something on which I would base a parallel system as it has too much sharing and other things which don't go parallel easily. Using it as plugin to erlang for doing "business" logic works quite well, either by communicating with a Lua system or doing like Luerl and implementing it Erlang. This means that Luerl meshes completely with Erlang.
      - gordonguthrie 13y ago
        HN reorders comments on the fly - so your comment floated up...

hapless 13y ago

This is true, but it misses the point: Erlang is missing enough things that this fellow would rather rewrite OTP in Lua than deal with Erlang. e.g. string handling

rvirding 13y ago
From personal experience implementing the string handling is trivial compared to implementing the system side of Erlang. Get real.
- davidw 13y ago
  For those following along at home, rvirding is one of the inventors of Erlang. Robert - one of the things that occasionally bothers me about Erlang is that if something like string handling is so trivial, then it should be made available as a more extensive library, rather than an exercise that leaves the reader wishing they were using another language that handles boring stuff like that. It may well not be trivial for the person just get started with it, and you've lost a user if they give up in frustration. Here's one of the other inventors of the language asking for help about splitting a string, for instance: http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-February/077417.html http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-February/0...
  - gordonguthrie 13y ago
    Well not quite splitting a string, using regexs. Regexs are The language Satan communicates with his minions in...
digitalzombie 13y ago
Someone implemented a DSL lua on Erlang VM already.
- gordonguthrie 13y ago
  That'll be Robert Virding (see comment below) lol
  - rvirding 13y ago
    Yes, that's me. Where is the "comment below"? Couldn't find it. I just want to point out that I don't dislike Lua at all, it is a small neat language with some very nice features. It just isn't something on which I would base a parallel system as it has too much sharing and other things which don't go parallel easily. Using it as plugin to erlang for doing "business" logic works quite well, either by communicating with a Lua system or doing like Luerl and implementing it Erlang. This means that Luerl meshes completely with Erlang.
    - gordonguthrie 13y ago
      HN reorders comments on the fly - so your comment floated up...