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nextos on Aug 8, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: When would you choose Erlang? (2013)

It's really really enlightening to see how you can build Erlang as a Prolog DSL. Since Prolog is homoiconic, it's quite easy:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=8AD...

That's actually how Erlang was born, hence the apparently odd syntax.

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