Re:“Mostly functional” programming does not work
by abecedarius on Sunday April 27, 2014 @02:59PM
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Erlang is an uncompromisingly pure implementation of the actor model
It's not. To pick just the first issue I remember, PIDs are forgeable. (I spent a day once trying to survey what you'd have to do to capability-tame Erlang, and it looked like a lot of work. The Erlang developers did not wear a hair-shirt.)
It's not. To pick just the first issue I remember, PIDs are forgeable. (I spent a day once trying to survey what you'd have to do to capability-tame Erlang, and it looked like a lot of work. The Erlang developers did not wear a hair-shirt.)