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Re:Why Erlang matters by klibertp on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @06:31PM (#4781223)
Ok, this is what I was asking at the beginning, writing the question: "In what sense?"

You're entitled to your own definition of words, in this case you defined "worse" (and this definition is very popular, too!) and it's ok. My perspective is different and so my definition is - I don't care about "average people" at all, I like very much "mental contortions" and I enjoy making more than shipping, and so "worse" for me means something different altogether.

I just wanted to what you meant by "worse", really. I won't agree with you here, but I understand and accept your opinion.

I edited my previous post in reply to your note at the end.

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Re:Why Erlang matters by confluence on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @06:53PM (#4781295)
You'll notice that most successful systems empower the common man (or unit) (capitalism/democracy/distributed systems/self-policing/bottom up ideas) and the most "ivory tower"/"top down" like systems don't perform nearly as well (totalitarianism/communism).

There are limits of course, and always complexity, but distributed incentive based systems appear to empirically work rather well.

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