Python vs Ruby

[ssthapa at cs.uchicago.edu]

Alexander Williams <thantos at telocity.com> wrote:
>If you REALLY want to go out of the mainstream, on both Linux and
>Windows, go hit http://www.erlang.org ...  Nothing beats the feeling
>of watching a single function go bouncing between your Linux and Win
>boxen running the same byrecode, packaging itself up and beaming its
>data across to the other node to compute on either/both ...

    Erlang's not really non mainstream.  Ericsson and Bluetail both use
it to write the firmware for their telcom equipment.  Erlang is a 
functional language which would probably be a bit disconcerting to 
java/c/c++ programmers but it has a bunch of neat concurrency and 
redundancy features builtin since it was primarily designed to be used
in mission critical hardware.

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