[erlang-questions] Strange crash and hang

[Jon Schneider]

Avoiding David's actual problem this is surely yet another instance of
traditional linked lists causing massive trouble just because they're how
LISP did lists decades ago when pointers weren't 64 bits. As a means of
storing strings they're diabolical.

Would it not be worth purging lists from some of the workings of Erlang ?

Jon

> end up in the error logger and turned from a large binary into a
> linked-list of the string representation of that binary