Why I program in Erlang (2012)
> ... [I]n my experience it is rarely necessary to refactor Erlang code in the same way the object-oriented code needs refactoring from time to time.That... depends. If you work with only highly disciplined people who want to do the right thing always, then yeah, I agree. But if you work with people who have deadlines or need to get stuff done _now_, you could see functions that take unnecessary arguments, or excessively large records, and those sorts of things are hard to work with.I think this person is an excellent engineer who loves to code and is really good at it, but hasn't worked with Erlang in a professional capacity. Which...> I have spent a large chunk of my free time programming in Erlangding ding ding