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Re:Why Developers Never Use State Machines (2011) by cimmanom on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @05:49AM (#16472422)
The erlang tutorial is pretty effective at that, IMO. The biggest problem with it is that erlang syntax is so foreign to most programmers you're going to spend enough mental effort understanding that to detract from the brainpower available for understanding the functional paradigms.
Re:Why Developers Never Use State Machines (2011) by lostcolony on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @08:04AM (#16472998)
I found the opposite to be true. It's so 'foreign' that it avoids me falling into "I already know what this does" traps. Except for 'if'. Avoid 'if'.
Re:Why Developers Never Use State Machines (2011) by Sean1708 on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @09:46AM (#16473716)
Isn't that why Elixir came about, to be Erlang with a less esoteric interface?
Re:Why Developers Never Use State Machines (2011) by cimmanom on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @12:00PM (#16475362)
Sure, but does Elixir have the exact same tutorial?