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Re: Erlang/OTP 18.0 has been released

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See, this would not have happened if they had coded this project in a purely functional language.

Exactly, because if it was a purely functional language, they would have started the project, worked on it for a week, blog about it and said purely functional language for a year, then throw it away.

For example, Erlang was originally implemented in prolog.
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