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Re:The Joy of Erlang; Or, How to Ride a Toruk (2011) by Hupriene on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @12:45PM (#15799493)
As a former lisper, I was secretly hoping that everyone would tell me that LFE is a fantastic and totally viable language.
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Re:The Joy of Erlang; Or, How to Ride a Toruk (2011) by rdtsc on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @01:06PM (#15799725)
Well perfect, do give LFE a try. I know of a few commercial users of it. You might be able to transfer some of the ideas and skills from lisp but also learn about processes and mailbox and such, without seeing a completely new syntax.
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Re:The Joy of Erlang; Or, How to Ride a Toruk (2011) by macintux on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @01:08PM (#15799745)
There are commercial users? That's fantastic news!
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Re:The Joy of Erlang; Or, How to Ride a Toruk (2011) by macintux on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @12:52PM (#15799561)
Heh, sorry.

I've dabbled in it a couple of times, because I'd also like to do some work with it, but haven't gotten very far. By all means give it a shot if it'll scratch your itch.

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Re:The Joy of Erlang; Or, How to Ride a Toruk (2011) by macintux on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @12:56PM (#15799606)
A list of every BEAM language I could find, including a Scheme and a couple of MLs:

https://gist.github.com/macintux/6349828#alternative-languag...

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