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Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 16:32:56 -0400
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On 07/07/2015 03:50 PM, Bob Paddock (graceindustries AT gmail DOT com) [via
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> "Parallel processing,
> concurrency, threading is an very important point in these days"
> 
> To add other obscure languages to this thread (I have heard of all of
> them except Crystal, need to look that one up).
> 
> Erlang, that does parallel processing without threads.
> Erlang's designer saw threads as evil and went with message passing.
> Read Joe Armstrong's thesis.
> Never heard of Erlang?  It runs a large part of the worlds phone network.

  Erlang looks fantastic, until you get to that
nonintuitive-to-thepoint-of-incomprehensibility syntax!

> Functional Languages are the long term future rather than procedural
> languages for maintainability and keeping out bugs.

  For the most part I'd have to agree...but they're always going to be
slow, because functional language code (much like object-oriented code)
generally doesn't map all that well to the way processors actually
*work*. (unless you're running an iAPX-432, which I'm assuming you
aren't! ;))

  Of course one could make "the Lisp argument": "Now that processors are
faster, the performance problems people complained about years ago are
irrelevant!" ;)

                 -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA