Erlang much?

Erlang much?

Posted May 3, 2007 5:00 UTC (Thu) by jbw (subscriber, #5689)
In reply to: Erlang much? by NAR
Parent article: The Rise of Functional Languages (Linux Journal)

In message #232640 NAR wrote:

> Erlang is indeed functional, but I'm afraid its functional features
> are more like nuisances than strong points. The fact that you don't
> have destructive updates leads to variable names like HR0, HR1,
> etc. to hold the value after an update (at one place I even saw
> HR7).

This is actually one of the key strengths of Erlang. All of the run-time upgrading that is done in Erlang crucially depends on the lack of assignments (destructive updates).

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