Damien Katz has more interesting comments about Erlang’s “ugliness”. (hat-tip @Folknology)
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Here’s a question … why is Erlang so ugly? I don’t mean that in a pejorative way (not much, anyway). I mean, I really love what it does. I’m totally impressed with Erlang’s power and simplicity. I’m writing simulations which are about a quarter of the size of the Python equivalent. So this is not …
And I thought I was ambitious, trying to write a programming language! My friend Oli has decided to reinvent programming as we know it. Details are still trickling out via his web-site : Semantic Programming. And I’m in frenzied skype conversation with him, trying to figure out what it’s all about. In outline, it starts …
Paul Graham’s Arc Challenge . Examples in Lisp, Smalltalk Seaside, Ruby, Perl and Python (using generators instead of continuations) And an Erlang response.
Here’s an interesting question (after reading this). Why does anyone want to write “large” programs? Everyone knows large programs are difficult to build and maintain. Want we want is small programs that happen to be powerful (do a lot) and scale over large numbers of users. Is there any reason to think that “large” program …