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Re:Erlang: What the Cool Kids Are Doing by rontr on Tuesday January 15, 2008 @12:42PM (#98750)
The cool kids won't move on to Scala for a number of reasons, the primary of which is that Scala's actors are not as powerful as Erlang processes.

See Virding's First Rule of Programming (http://www.nabble.com/Erlang-concurrency-to14747956.html):

"Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang."

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Re:Erlang: What the Cool Kids Are Doing by davidw on Tuesday January 15, 2008 @04:08PM (#98841)
> Scala's actors are not as powerful as Erlang processes.

How so? I know Erlang reasonably well, but haven't messed with Scala at all.

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