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Re:The future of programming languages in a massively concur... by davidw on Monday November 05, 2007 @03:13AM (#76216)
Erlang is most definitely functional, although it's not as pure as something like Haskell.

In terms of speed, this is something to look at:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/debian/benchmark.php?test=...

It's pretty fast for most things if you use HiPE.

Your skepticism about Erlang is justified in terms of "next big language":

http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2007/10/09/languages-wor...

However, if you use it for what it was created for, it is very nice - it's the best thing out there.

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