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Re:Erlang: What the Cool Kids Are Doing by Xichekolas on Tuesday January 15, 2008 @01:56PM (#98781)
It sounds weird at first to have variables that don't really vary, but it works out quite nicely.
Re:Erlang: What the Cool Kids Are Doing by jward on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @02:14AM (#99124)
It's sad. After coding in Haskell and Erlang I moved back to Python for a project and my code was just littered with extra variables. I had become so used to the functional way that varying variables just seemed so wrong and foreign.