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<body class='hmmessage'><BR>As with any language, it's hard to make final conclusions when you barely know anything about it. Now, having said that, text processing regardless the source is a basic necessity particularly nowadays, and I wonder what improvements are in store for Erlang in the near future in this area.<BR>
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<DIV>> ... a single file which doesn't lend itself to parallelism? Had he started by writing a client/server or p2p application around some domain other than system-admin stuff, perhaps he'd be much more favorable towards the multitude of strengths Erlang has to offer. </DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=EC_e id=EC_q_115332ed5e348a9b_1><BR>> <BR>> <A href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/09/22/Erlang" target=_blank>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/09/22/Erlang</A><BR>> <BR></SPAN><BR></DIV></DIV><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></body>
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