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by Allan_Smithee 4375 days ago
Everybody thinks that the identifying characteristic of Erlang is the "Actor"(-like) model.

This is untrue.

This is also why all the "Actor"(-like) libraries grafted on to other programming languages that proudly proclaim themselves "Erlang-like" are wrong and make me laugh out loud when I run across them.