With regard to Erlang, are you sure? Joe Armstrong seems to think its fine for string manipulation... http://www.erlang.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?4:mss:47293:20091

With regard to Erlang, are you sure? Joe Armstrong seems to think its fine for string manipulation... http://www.erlang.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?4:mss:47293:200911:dmkmepbchkebogigcnaf http://www.erlang.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?4:mss:47293:200911:d... (You can either think that he is biased or that he would be an expert on it). I mean, it seems to me that javascripts main advantage in programming for the web would be DOM manipulation. And that is good, but a lot of languages can do it. (Honestly I've never really done (much) direct string manipulation for web programming). It doesn't seem to me that javascript really has a monopoly on event driven programming either. It is relatively easy to do that sort of thing in almost any other functional style language...