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Joe Armstrong - On Erlang, OO, Concurrency, Shared State and the Future (Channel 9 interview) (msdn.com)
9 points by iamelgringo on Oct 30, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



interesting how he gets flustered when asked if he is trying to model the real world, doesn't the real world have side effects? Don't people perceive the world as having all kinds of interacting state?

Of course it does. We would be crazy to try to re-implement the world the way nature does it. DNA is the worst spaghetti code ever created. Side-effect free concurrency does not have to be the most natural or intuitive way to model things- it should be an attempt at finding the best way.




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