Re:What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007)
by zengid on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @09:08PM
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Alan Kay once said (at an Erlang conference):
"By the time the software engineering of a language gets in good shape, the language has become obsolete in terms of 'needed expressiveness'. [Therefore] in a 'Real' computer science, the best languages should serve as the 'assembly code' for the next generation of expression!" [1]
He then proposed the hypothetical question: "What should Erlang be an assembly code for?" [2]
"By the time the software engineering of a language gets in good shape, the language has become obsolete in terms of 'needed expressiveness'. [Therefore] in a 'Real' computer science, the best languages should serve as the 'assembly code' for the next generation of expression!" [1]
He then proposed the hypothetical question: "What should Erlang be an assembly code for?" [2]
I'm not sure if he knew about Elixir..
[1] https://youtu.be/fhOHn9TClXY?t=30m39s [2] https://youtu.be/fhOHn9TClXY?t=36m49s