erlang-vs-scala

[Sean Kelly]

This is a fairly interesting blog as well:

http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/05/28/notes-on-a-history-of-erlang/

It's largely a collection of quotes from Joe Armstrong, the creator
of Erlang.  Here's one of the many that may be interesting regarding
D 2.0:

"
 the status of Erlang as a fully fledged member of the functional
family is dubious. Erlang programs are not referentially transparent
and there is no system for static type analysis of Erlang programs. Nor
is it relational language. Sequential Erlang has a pure functional subset,
but nobody can force the programmer to use this subset; indeed, there
are often good reasons for not using it."

The blog also notes that Joe Armstrong has never mentioned the Actor
model in relation to Erlang, and suggests that this means that the Actor
model was rediscovered independently during the creation of Erlang.


Sean