erlang-vs-scala

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janderson a écrit :
> A friend at work pointed out this article to me:
> 
> http://yarivsblog.com/articles/2008/05/18/erlang-vs-scala/
> 
> -Joel

Very interesting, thanks.

Ssome advantage of Erlang are mostly theoretical in my book: 'hot code 
swapping' bah, if you want to have full availability you need redundant 
hardware and you can use this for software version change (though it's 
not trivial I agree).
If you don't need full availability you just stop your software for 
version change: it's much more simple this way.

Also, I disagree about the 'ease' of learning Erlang: Erlang has an 
alien syntax (which I don't like much) and an alien way of doing things 
(single assignment) which is not so easy for developers..
IMHO developers learn Erlang because it's good at distributed 
programming not because of the language itself whereas Scala has a 
really nice syntax (better than D's), but it's not as good as 
distributed programming some criticism in the article where interesting 
(cooperative scheduling)..

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