The Next Mainstream Programming Language: A Game Developer's Perspective :: Redux

[Craig Black]

"Sean Kelly" <sean at f4.ca> wrote in message 
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> Brad Anderson wrote:
>> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>>> I read in a recent article (I think it came from Slashdot, but not sure)
>>> that a new programming paradigm is needed to make concurrency easier,
>>> just in the same way as OO (and class encapsulation) improved on the
>>> previous data abstraction paradigm to make code cleaner and easier to
>>> write. Just in the same way as structured programming (ie, using
>>> functions/scopes/modules) improved on the previous paradigm of
>>> sequential/global/goto-using code, so to speak.
>>
>> http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/articles/erlang.html
>>
>> search for "Concurrency Oriented Programming"
>
> Thanks for the link Brad, this is a great article.  I've never really 
> looked into erlang, but it sounds like it's the type of language I've been 
> thinking we'll end up with (based on message-passing, but a bit evolved 
> from that).  I'm still not convinced that a functional language is 
> required for this, but it is certainly a more natural fit.  Seems like the 
> greatest obstacle for erlang would be getting schools to teach functional 
> programming again--it's a bit of a chicken & egg problem.
>
>
> Sean

Interesting.  I wonder how Erlang scalability and performance compares to 
other functional languages.