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Random person slams Erlang, news at 11

Seriously, check this out:

You want to know what I really think of Erlang? Erlang is crap. That’s what I think. Now don’t feel bad if you are an Erlang fanatic. And please don’t get mad. I always tell it like I see it. That’s my style.

Now, seriously, what? Read his agenda then come back. Yowza. Someone call the people in the padded white van. Seriously. I’d respond, but it’s loaded with so much BS. This is priceless:

My question to Erlang supporters is this. If functional programming was all that it’s cracked up to be, why did Joe Armstrong (et al) felt it necessary to provide a method for failure localization? No need to answer. Joe alreeady [sic] did. He assumed that “large systems [written in a functional language or not] will probably always be delivered containing a number of errors in the software.” By contrast, the COSA philosophy is that software should never fail, period.

Oh, I’m glad he’s got a philosophy that can make people infallible. I certainly know my perspective has been all that’s been keeping me from total and complete perfection in all that I do. Yes, that’s exactly the problem. Or, maybe, just maybe, Joe, along with most rational people, believes that mistakes happen and that it’s necessary to adapt to them and react to them. Crazy talk.