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SoftwareMaven on Aug 20, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Functional Programming Is Hard, That's Why It's Go...

functional in the small and OO in the large" seems a good path.

That's what I like about Erlang as well. Once you recognize processes as your objects, this philosophy just flows out of the language.

gclaramunt on Aug 28, 2011 [–]

But is taking a while for Erlang to come to terms with it...see Joe Armstrong "Why OO sucks" (http://www.sics.se/~joe/bluetail/vol1/v1_oo.html)

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