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		critic on March 12, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Haskell or Erlang? I don't know about "modern" and "expressive", but it's definitely faster, and I really like the fact that the compiler catches 95% of the silly errors I'd make in a dynamically typed language.

jrockway on March 12, 2009 [–]

I don't find Haskell to be less expressive than languages like Perl. I will admit that I haven't written enough Erlang to really get a feel for expressiveness.

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