From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2011-04-05T21:43:42+09:00
Subject: Re: functional languages -- any recommendations?

Johnny M. wrote in post #990966:
> Erlang doesn't have inheritance either but it doesn't become an exercise
> in logic the same way because it doesn't have static-typing.
> IIRC their structures are just transformed into a vector or something at
> compile time, there's no real notion of a member of a data-structure.

You're probably thinking of "records", which are basically just named 
offsets into a tuple.

There are proper data structures too, such as "dict" which is somewhat 
like a ruby Hash.

It can be a bit overwhelming at first having all the different built-in 
types: tuple, list, binary (when you'd just use Array in ruby)

> I really like erlang though, the syntax is cool.  Commas.

It takes some grokking as to when you need a comma, when you need a 
semicolon, and when you need a dot. Erlang has great semantics and 
terrible syntax.

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