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I never thought of it as functional - looked more like little islands of imperative programming to me (I guess I will have to check again). I think fast inter

I never thought of it as functional - looked more like little islands of imperative programming to me (I guess I will have to check again). I think fast interpreted is probably even overstating it, it makes all sorts of compromises. Erlang was also designed for very high availability - so that must cost something as well. I guess we will see what happens, but I am very skeptical about erlang (not sure why, just a gut feel).

davidw 19y ago
Erlang is most definitely functional, although it's not as pure as something like Haskell. In terms of speed, this is something to look at: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/debian/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/debian/benchmark.php?test=... It's pretty fast for most things if you use HiPE. Your skepticism about Erlang is justified in terms of "next big language": http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2007/10/09/languages-worst-case-vs-average http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2007/10/09/languages-wor... However, if you use it for what it was created for, it is very nice - it's the best thing out there.