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> If you seriously look at the Erlang syntax you will find it is very simple, concise and consistent

You're serious and I'm not, gotcha. This adversarial attitude you assume, isn't helping. Work on that first.

> I know and have used about 9-10 so far so what is really the problem?

The problem is that you think it's trivial and other developers overwhelmingly don't. To be fair, it's only the first barrier to entry. After that you learn the sad state of Erlang data structures and expected language interoperability.

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Please don't post uncivil comments to anybody here, including inventors of programming languages you don't like.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10963889 and marked it off-topic.

jack9, isn't it a privilege to be able to interact with folks such as Robert Virding (one of the co-developers of the Erlang language)?

I know of few other forums where such interaction opportunities are offered.

The fruits of their labour impact our lives and the lives of millions of others implicitly every day.

Let us atleast be civil in our discourse.

I think they have done enough to earn some respect from us all regardless of our personal opinions on their work.

> jack9, isn't it a privilege to be able to interact with folks such as Robert Virding (one of the co-developers of the Erlang language)?

Or, at least, people who take on such names on pseudonymous message boards.

(Mr. Virding is one of the co-inventors of Erlang.)

Why are you so mad? It doesn't really matter if 'other developers' don't understand Erlang. Erlang doesn't have to be the one true perfect language for everything, just a pretty nice sweet spot for a bunch of use cases.

> (Mr. Virding is one of the co-inventors of Erlang.)

And we know that this username is being used by the real person because... ?

because it's his account. Look at his posting history, if you like. Or ask him on twitter, where, like here, he's @rvirding.

Because it is ... ?

How do we know pg's account is used by a real person, or dang's, maybe they are all aliens, or robots, who knows...

> How do we know pg's account is used by a real person

Long history here.

> or dang's

Long history, plus a history of apparently being able to do things normal users can't do.

Plus, of course, dang doesn't claim to be anyone famous, merely a mod of this discussion forum. You can't impersonate someone who's only famous for being able to do maintenance-type things around here: If you can do those things, you're a mod, and if you can't, nobody cares.

Because it is! :-) For better or worse I am the Robert Virding. Actually there is only one Robert V in the world at the moment, me, there aren't many Virdings. :-)

> After that you learn the sad state of ... expected language interoperability.

Mmm? Ports let you interop with anything that can send data over a pipe. Port drivers let you use a port with programs that don't fit well into the "pass things as a stream of bytes" model. NIF lets you interop with anything that has a C binding.

What are you looking for that's not provided?

jack9: you might want to think about how your tone is coming off to people reading your text -- "You're serious and I'm not..." -- if you're surprised by how people react to it.

I was going to make a nasty comment and refer to Schiller, but I won't. The jokes on you. :-)

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