Darren New wrote:
> Gail Shaw wrote:
>> I haven't looked too deeply, but it's on my list of languages to learn.
> 
> Speaking of functional, I think Andrew has mildly mischaracterised 
> Erlang as a functional language. While I've seen a few informal 
> references to needing to use a functional style to program Erlang, none 
> of the actual documentation says it's functional, and I never even saw a 
> mention of "referential transparency."

Well, people claim that Lisp is an [impure] functional language too, and 
AFAIK Erlang is about as pure as Lisp is.

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