Robert Virding was famed for his comment. Singular. The entire stuff he wrote had one comment in: in the middle of the pattern-matching compiler there was a single line that said, “And now for the tricky bit.”
Joe Armstrong, The Mess We’re In, Strange Loop 2014, St. Louis MO, USA.
try to determine what exactly you gain for the effort of changing a well-established syntax. If it doesn’t actually let anyone do anything new, it’s likely to meet quite a bit of resistance.
The first step is to know what the hell we’re doing.
Records are dead - long live maps !
I started wondering about what object-oriented programming was, and I thought, well, Erlang wasn’t object-oriented; it was a functional programming language. And then my thesis supervisor, Seif Haridi said, “But you’re wrong. Erlang’s extremely object-oriented. The thing is, the object-oriented languages aren’t object-oriented.”
OOP = messaging + isolation + polymorphism + late binding and NOT classes + methods (which is just code organisation)
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