21 Feb
2020
21 Feb
'20
2:10 a.m.
On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 09:48:58 -0800 Rich Morin <rdm(a)cfcl.com> wrote:
FWIW, I've been enjoying Elixir a lot for the
past few years. It's an
Actor-based, dynamically typed, FP language that runs on the Erlang VM.
It has Rubyish syntax, pattern matching, syntactic macros, lightweight
processes, a message-passing framework, supervision trees, and other
cool stuff.
I haven't gotten around to playing with Elixir yet....
Nit: I thought Erlang designers weren't aware of Hewitt's
Actor model before they designed the language; it just
happened to map to the Actor model very well.
I will note, however, that Elixir programming tends to
be rather
different from the stuff I've been doing for the past 50 years. For
example, processing pipelines tend to replace sets of nested loops...
No Stinking Loops! I am familiar with that from the
perspective of array programming languages. Arrays and streams
have quite a bit in common. [At times I have wanted a more
powerful APL like shell, where things like wc, grep, sort,
group, join etc. are builtins.]