A-Z of Programming Languages: Erlang

Courtesy Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog  Tue, 06/16/2009 - 08:46

The latest entry has Joe Armstrong discussing Erlang in the ongoing series of interviews with PL designers (The A-Z of Programming Languages ).

Two related things caught my eye. The first is the obvious truism about language features:

Removing stuff turns out to be painfully difficult.

It's really easy to add features to a language, but almost impossibly difficult to remove things. In the early days we would happily add things to the language and remove them...


 

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