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A week with Elixir (2013)

I came across Ruby in 1998 because I was an avid reader of comp.lang.misc (ask your parents). I downloaded it, compiled it, and fell in love.

Scala and Akka run on the JVM so under the covers, things like garbage collection and code loading are fundamentally different. * Funs and defs are not the same When I started writing ``Programming Erlang'' Dave Thomas wondered why you couldn't type function in the shell. In a conventional language creating proper closures would be very expensive since it would require deep copying of all the variables that are captured in the environment, but this is not the case in Erlang or Elixir, since data once written is immutable.

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