Women in Technology

Article:		What I Hate About Your Programming Language
Subject:		And what do you think about ERLANG
Date:		2003-05-14 00:26:01
From:		anonymous2
I agree and that's why I am now using Erlang ( www.erlang.org ;-)

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• And what do you think about ERLANG
  2003-05-14 09:59:45  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  Yeah, what he said. I'm a Scheme zealot working in a Java/C++ world, and have found Erlang to be a very nice practical compromise. Its combination of a strict functional [no side affects] core and asynchronous message-passing-based multi-processing is really powerful; you get the features you need for most client-server apps with the simplicity and clarity of functional programming.
  
  What do I hate about Erlang? Record notation. I agree it may be useful for larger data-processing projects with different departments, etc. but 99 times out of 100 I just use a tuple because records are so UGLY.