[erlang-questions] Erlang and Akka

[Wojtek Narczyński]

On 01.09.2014 19:20, Joe Armstrong wrote:
> I'd thought for some time that Erlang ought to have a process declaration.
>
> The problem is that processes have no names Pid = spawn( fun() -> ... end)
> yields an anonymous process - we can't talk about the process Pid
> since it has no name.
I believe one could do all of what you describe right now rather easily 
in Haskell. But it wouldn't buy you much, because the key information is 
_in_what_state_ does the process send or receive given messages.

But I fell uncomfortable writing this to the person who came up with UBF 
some time ago. For complex message flows, having an intermediary whose 
sole responsibility is to check the flow, with a grammar for example, 
always seemed like a good idea to me. Maybe internalizing UBF into 
erlang somehow would be a way to go?

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Kind regards,
Wojtek Narczynski