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Functional programming and unreasonable expectations
- jganetsk 17y agoAnother reason I like it so much is that purely functional software tends to be more reliable. Joe Armstrong of Erlang fame makes that point in an excellent talk much better than I could ever hope to. Erlang is not purely functional. Not even remotely.
- mbrubeck 17y agoErlang is not a pure language, but it does have language and library features that make it easy to write purely functonal code.
- nothingmuch 17y agoExactly. It's funny how commenters keep clinging to Erlang as if I said it was purely functional, when I'm actually talking about writing purely functional Perl (and to the extent that it's possible, C). Oh well.