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Re:What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007) by jknoepfler on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @02:13AM (#13479393)
I honestly don't understand how this messes anything up... the elixir syntax produces something semantically equivalent with a lot less garbage. Opinions may differ I guess, but I find your Elixir example much easier to read than your Erlang example (I program in Elixir, so that's not much of a datapoint).
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Re:What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007) by BoorishBears on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @09:45AM (#13481708)
Most of the garbage is because those aren't the closest equivalents.

This is the closest Erlang equivalent:

   fac(0) -> 1;
   fac(N) -> N * fac(N-1).
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