The Next Mainstream Programming Language: A Game Developer's

[Brad Anderson]

Robert Fraser wrote:
> 
> Julio César Carrascal Urquijo Wrote:
> 
>> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>>> Hum, again Erlang, interesting. I had heard a bit about it before, on an 
>>> article (again don't remember where) about a comparison between Apache 
>>> and a web server built in Erlang. On a multicore machine Erlang did much 
>>> because of it's massively parallel capabilities, etc..
>> Probably this one: http://www.sics.se/~joe/apachevsyaws.html
>>
>>
>>> This makes Erlang very interesting, but one must then ask questions 
>>> like: What restrictions does Erlang's approach have? Does it have 
>>> disadvantages in other areas or aspects of programming? Is it good as a 
>>> general purpose programming language, or is it best only when doing 
>>> concurrent applications? Can any of it's ideas be applied to imperative 
>>> languages like D, Java, C#, etc.?
>> My (very limited) experience with Erlang on a (very small) pet project 
>> is that you can't just transliterate a Java or C# app to Erlang. The 
>> paradigm is too different, you have to redesign the entire app to 
>> benefit from Erlang's features; but, once you start to get comfortable 
>> with it you get several times more productive with Erlang.
>>
>>
>>> I personally am not looking deep into this (never had the use to study 
>>> concurrency in-depth so far), I'm just pointing out that a lot of things 
>>> have to be considered, and I have a feeling that there must be some 
>>> downside to Erlang, or otherwise everyone else would be trying to bring 
>>> Erlang aspects into their languages. Or maybe Erlang is just taking 
>>> momentum. Time will tell.
>> Some of it's concurrency features could be implemented as a library. 
>> gen_server and family is a Template Method using callbacks + Green 
>> threads + error recovery on steroids.
>>
>> What I'd really like to see on D is the bit syntax and pattern matching. 
>> It is very useful to implement binary protocols and parsers. But I'm not 
>> holding my breath.
> 
> But green threads don't take advantage of multi-core processors, neh?

http://www.erlang.org/ml-archive/erlang-questions/200606/msg00187.html

BA



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