| Re: erlang misconceptions (Re: Survey: What led you to functional programming?) |
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Group: comp.lang.functional · Group Profile
Author: Jon HarropJon Harrop Date: Sep 20, 2008 11:38
Ulf Wiger wrote:
> Jon Harrop skrev:
>> . "Erlang's characteristics are ideal for parallel
>> computing." - Erlanger
>
> I was unable to find the quoted phrase via google, so I assume
> that the quotation marks were not to be taken literally? (:
Yes. I read two journalistic articles that described Erlang's
characteristics correctly and then incorrectly extrapolated that Erlang is
a Fortran killer for HPC. Hence my paraphrased quote.
I'm just awaiting a barrage of ad-hominem attacks following my other alleged
misconceptions. ;-)
> Surely that Erlanger was mistaken, but I hope that this is
> not a common misconception (it's certainly not a commonly
> held opinion on the erlang mailing list).
> If it is, let's clear things up.
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> I wrote the following in a fairly well cited blog article
> on erlang-style concurrency:
>
> "There will always be limits. Erlang was designed for agent-style
> concurrency; not for massive data parallelism."
> ( http://ulf.wiger.net/weblog/2008/02/06/what-is-erlang-style-concurrency/)
Nice article. :-)
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