Erlang (was Re: Good introduction to functional programming with Python?)

Cameron Laird claird at starbase.neosoft.com
Thu Dec 28 16:52:08 EST 2000


In article <92f0il01a5u at news1.newsguy.com>,
Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
>"Tim Peters" <tim.one at home.com> wrote in message
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>> Fine by me.  I must say, though, that Erlang appears to occupy an extreme
>> corner of the FP universe.
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>It sure looks unique to me for its emphasis on concurrency (if there
>are other FP's that are similarly concurrency-oriented, I have not seen
>them yet).  But Scheme (albeit impure) and Erlang (albeit 'culturally
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Clean <URL: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~clean/ > comes close.
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