[erlang-questions] Erlang 3000?

[Kevin Scaldeferri]

On Nov 15, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Zvi wrote:
> One of the problem, that Erlang is dynamicaly-typed language, and  
> module
> writer use whatever atoms s/he want (i.e ok, done, ping, pong, pang,  
> error,
> etc.), when in statically-typed language you return boolean, with  
> only two
> known values.
>
> Anyway, you can see here the difference between languages, which  
> require
> some discipline and those which don't. It very hard, to write  
> libraries like
> this in Java or C++ (but very easy in Perl or other scripting  
> languages).

Quite honestly, I would say that the situation is worse in Erlang than  
most dynamically typed languages, because of:

a) the existence of symbols,
b) the lack of a canonical undef or nil object, and
c) to a lesser degree, the strangeness of the if statement


-kevin