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nivertech on July 30, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: If you can't make a language fast, make it paralle...

My favorite features of Erlang/OTP in descending order:

1. built-in distribution (i.e. Erlang distributed RPC)

2. bit-syntax

3. light-weight processes

4. pattern-matching

reeses on July 31, 2010 [–]

2 combined with 4 is a secret weapon when parsing record-oriented files from old mainframes or minicomputers. Replace 500 lines of Java with one--very long--line of Erlang.

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