<story><title>What can I only do in Erlang?</title><url>http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-November/081570.html#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ixiaus</author><text>Huh?&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Hardcore feel&amp;quot; is definitely there and the language is anything but &amp;quot;writing config txt files to some underlying system&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve built applications in the &amp;gt; 10k SLOC range that use a consensus algorithm for distributed computing and it was &lt;i&gt;hard&lt;/i&gt; but made &lt;i&gt;tremendously easier&lt;/i&gt; because of Erlang&amp;#x27;s built in primitives.&lt;p&gt;No hardcore feel was lost at all and neither was it writing a config txt file...&lt;p&gt;[EDIT] I would love to know why the downvoter disagrees with me, unless you&amp;#x27;re being a downvote kiddie.</text></item><item><author>zerr</author><text>Agree, and to look at it from a different angle - to me writing Erlang felt like I was writing config txt files to some underlying system. The system performs good following your &amp;quot;config&amp;quot; but all the hardcore feel is lost for you.</text></item><item><author>radmuzom</author><text>In 2005, I worked in software development for 6 months before abandoning it for another field.&lt;p&gt;In my new job, I was given the task of writing a server for a messaging application - which would allow users to send a &amp;quot;hand-drawn&amp;quot; message from our own proprietary handheld device to Windows phones. I was told to learn Erlang and get it done - the company was barely 30 people and had no formal training programs. While I have a degree in theoretical computer science, I didn&amp;#x27;t do much functional programming before - learnt some Haskell in 2001 in college (just the basics, equivalent of first 6 chapters of LYAH, no monads). I remember learning Erlang over the weekend and delivering it in the first week of my job. Obviously, the code was neither great nor scalable - but I write this not to boast but to tell people that Erlang was so beautiful and easy that even an average intelligence person like me could use to produce functional software in a week. Today, my only regret is that I am not a programmer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>burkaman</author><text>I would never downvote someone for it, but starting a comment with &amp;quot;Huh?&amp;quot; is always incredibly annoying to me, although it happens a ton on HN. To me it reads like something you would only say if a comment was literally unintelligible, or logically impossible or something. If you changed it to &amp;quot;I disagree,&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;What do you mean?&amp;quot; it would change the whole tone of the comment, at least for me.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, just a guess, I don&amp;#x27;t even have enough karma to downvote.</text></comment>
<story><title>What can I only do in Erlang?</title><url>http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-November/081570.html#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ixiaus</author><text>Huh?&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Hardcore feel&amp;quot; is definitely there and the language is anything but &amp;quot;writing config txt files to some underlying system&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve built applications in the &amp;gt; 10k SLOC range that use a consensus algorithm for distributed computing and it was &lt;i&gt;hard&lt;/i&gt; but made &lt;i&gt;tremendously easier&lt;/i&gt; because of Erlang&amp;#x27;s built in primitives.&lt;p&gt;No hardcore feel was lost at all and neither was it writing a config txt file...&lt;p&gt;[EDIT] I would love to know why the downvoter disagrees with me, unless you&amp;#x27;re being a downvote kiddie.</text></item><item><author>zerr</author><text>Agree, and to look at it from a different angle - to me writing Erlang felt like I was writing config txt files to some underlying system. The system performs good following your &amp;quot;config&amp;quot; but all the hardcore feel is lost for you.</text></item><item><author>radmuzom</author><text>In 2005, I worked in software development for 6 months before abandoning it for another field.&lt;p&gt;In my new job, I was given the task of writing a server for a messaging application - which would allow users to send a &amp;quot;hand-drawn&amp;quot; message from our own proprietary handheld device to Windows phones. I was told to learn Erlang and get it done - the company was barely 30 people and had no formal training programs. While I have a degree in theoretical computer science, I didn&amp;#x27;t do much functional programming before - learnt some Haskell in 2001 in college (just the basics, equivalent of first 6 chapters of LYAH, no monads). I remember learning Erlang over the weekend and delivering it in the first week of my job. Obviously, the code was neither great nor scalable - but I write this not to boast but to tell people that Erlang was so beautiful and easy that even an average intelligence person like me could use to produce functional software in a week. Today, my only regret is that I am not a programmer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dvcc</author><text>Could possibly be that your comment comes across a bit harsh. Even if not the intention, my inner dialogue read it as someone speaking with anger.</text></comment>