[erlang-questions] The Beauty of Erlang Syntax

Steve Davis steven.charles.davis@REDACTED
Mon Mar 2 10:42:05 CET 2009



On Mar 1, 10:10 pm, "Richard O'Keefe" <o...@REDACTED> wrote:
> It probably means SSE instructions, or the kind of
> stuff you'd use CUDA for.

Hmm. Love to see this same argument given when CUDA has to run on
future hardware when multi-cores reach the 1000s. :)

..and it just struck me that it's somewhat ironic that we are driven
to write C to speed up floating point calculations when expressing
mathematics in Erlang is so much more natural syntactically.

regs
/sd



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