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Another 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 tal
by jganetsk 17y ago
Another 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.