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Re:What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007) by coldtea on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @06:36AM (#8226448)
Is that so, or is that old wives tales? Because in most "layered" languages, you can go quite far without understanding the base language, as long as you understand the semantics of the higher level language.

I don't need to know Java to write Scala for example -- I just need to know the relevant semantics of Scala's object system and interoperability.

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Re:What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007) by thisishugo on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @10:24AM (#8227190)
The semantics of Elixir are a superset of the semantics of Erlang, so by learning the former, you're learning the latter anyway. Plus, you'll be calling a lot of Erlang libraries from Elixir, so understanding how Erlang works is extremely beneficial to using Elixir.
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