Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Erlang News

Robert Virding's First Rule: "Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Erlang."

"I now know based on hard-won experience that you could replace "concurrent program" with "distributed system" in Robert's rule and it would still be just as accurate." --Steve Vinosky

Yariv wrote a cogent response to "What Sucks About Erlang".

Erlang Flavored Lisp anyone?