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

[Sean Kelly]

David Abrahams wrote:
> on Sun Jul 15 2007, Brad Anderson <brad-AT-dsource.org> 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"
> 
> Before you get too excited, see
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKfKtXYLG78


The video is a bit old (that or the people who made it were being 
silly), but it's really not bad.  From it I learned that Erlang can do 
realtime programming, can handle errors locally without much explicit 
coding to do so (or so it seemed), and is dynamically loaded.  Their 
conclusions at the end also suggest that it's much easier to write such 
programs in Erlang than in C.  Having worked in that particular field 
before, I found the demo to be pretty interesting.


Sean