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> The syntax is outdated and stupid (Prolog lol),

How is it any more or less stupid than curly bracket.

Show me another production ready language that has the same level of pattern matching as Erlang.

> Often times, algorithms simply cannot be parallelized.

Who cares. How many people here have implemented individual algorithms and delivered them as units of execution. Sure middleware companies maybe sell a cool implementation of A* or some patented sort algorithm.

You can think of parallelization at system level. Can you handle client connections concurrently (and in parallel?). If yes, that covers a large chunk of the usage domain for platforms these days.

> memory management isn't handled that well (and many more).

Can you expand on that?



> How is it any more or less stupid than curly bracket.

When you move a few lines around to refactor, you have to pay a lot of attention to the "ant turd token" line endings. I like Erlang, but still find this aspect of it annoying.


Haskell has nicer pattern matching capabilities.


No it hasn't :-) Just to stay on your level of detail




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