I've been reading about #Erlang lately. I'm a little disappointed. Erlang seems real good and powerful, but it's not nearly as weird as I thought. I had somehow gotten the impression that it was #Prolog-level weird, but it's only #Lisp-level weird, which is not actually all that weird these days, since everybody else added some functional elements to their languages.
So I was ready to have my mind blown, but instead I only got it expanded.
@MegaMichelle As I understand, the interesting part of Erlang is the message passing concurrency, distributed computing, and the "let it fail" philosophy. The core language itself is relatively conventional as a dynamically typed functional language.
Yepp, that is what I've found in my reading. This stuff is all cool too, and I like it a lot. It just wasn't what I had expected to learn.
@MegaMichelle
I don't know. A busy loop, or a wait on a connection that went down, not hanging the system is still uncommon and overly engineered. That is pretty mind-blowing.
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