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		DanWaterworth on Nov 27, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programming Languages: What tool is right for whic... `Highly-parallel network code` was the problem erlang was designed for. Haskell would also be a good fit.

Eventh on Nov 27, 2011 [–]

"Erlang was designed to program fault-tolerant systems" according to Joe Armstrong [1].

[1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Systems-that-Never-Stop-J...

DanWaterworth on Nov 27, 2011 | [–]

How do you make a system fault-tolerant? Make it distributed. How do distributed systems work? By communicating via a network.

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