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by reddit_clone 820 days ago
Its somewhat painful to watch modern languages and ecosystem reinvent (mostly in an inferior manner) things that Erlang (and Lisp) had since so long ago.

Talk about under-appreciated.

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Virding's First Rule of Programming (2008):

  Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language 
  contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation 
  of half of Erlang.
https://rvirding.blogspot.com/2008/01/virdings-first-rule-of...