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Commits like this make me realize, "oh, they're just developers like me" https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/37f143e9e16e89d753b0e5e4415968dbcd5f6b65 https://

• endymi0n 11y ago
  See, this would not have happened if they had coded this project in a purely functional language.
  • lectrick 11y ago
    It would not have happened if that logic was covered by tests :O
    • jlouis 11y ago
      Yes and no. Erlang/OTP has a pretty extensive test suite which takes several hours to run. There is a nightly test run on a multitide of architectures. So it is some times the case that a fault is caught at night and fixed the following day. The Erlang/OTP team runs a mantra where everything is covered by tests and they are doing a really good job at what they are doing. So I would not be surprised to see this having been caught by a test.
  • deeviant 11y ago
    Exactly, because if it was a purely functional language, they would have started the project, worked on it for a week, blog about it and said purely functional language for a year, then throw it away.
    • fanf2 11y ago
      For example, Erlang was originally implemented in prolog.