Why I Program in Erlang

Re:Why I Program in Erlang by masklinn on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @04:49AM (#4716620)

He's talking about iolists (concatenating strings for IO, which is the most common use case and the one needed for e.g. templates), not straight strings.

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Re:Why I Program in Erlang by klibertp on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @07:36AM (#4716958)

I wonder how many times that's need to be said until it sinks in? This is the third time and I didn't even go through half of comments yet...

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Re:Why I Program in Erlang by jlouis on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @09:16AM (#4717216)

Many times :)

writev() is hard to grasp.

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Re:Why I Program in Erlang by peerst on Saturday November 03, 2012 @05:57AM (#4736289)

Thats what not many realize, that iolists with binaries need never be pasted together. They are basically passed to the kernel with a writev

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