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by silentbicycle 5766 days ago
Sure, I'm just saying fogus is making a real point (even though "only" sounds like trolling).
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Yeah, I've heard or read Joe Armstrong talking about how Erlang process are like 'objects', but his brief cryptic comment needed something more. And I still disagree with it, because there's tons of interaction in Erlang that is not message passing.
I'm not saying Erlang is 100% OOP. Not at all. Just the good parts. :)
Have you looked at Reia at all?
I've glanced at it, but a language that sells itself as a Ruby-like language for the Erlang VM doesn't appeal to me. I really like Erlang, but don't care for Ruby. (In the procedural/OO/scripting niche, I strongly prefer Lua.)

I'll check it out again, though. If nothing else, it's an example of a real compiler written in Erlang, which is interesting in itself.