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Re:Joe Armstrong About Erlang (interview) by masklinn on Monday November 29, 2010 @01:04PM (#1951131)
And most OO languages devolve to imperative masses within methods. You could see Erlang as an OO/functional language (similar to OCaml, except asynchronous and dynamically typed) whereas C++, Java or Python are OO/imperative.
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Re:Joe Armstrong About Erlang (interview) by davidw on Monday November 29, 2010 @03:09PM (#1951605)
If you really wanted to see it that way, I think something like Reia might be a more interesting way of capturing it, myself. OTP has too much boilerplate for my tastes.
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