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Curt Sampson  
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 More options Nov 21 2009, 7:39 pm
From: Curt Sampson <c...@cynic.net>
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:39:30 +0900
Local: Sat, Nov 21 2009 7:39 pm
Subject: Re: [cufp] Re: Three years of a Scala lust affair, the blog post
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On 2009-11-21 15:17 -0800 (Sat), tivrfoa wrote:

> I don't know if I learn Erlang or Scala first. Both seems to have a
> great future (and already have a great present =).

If the question is what to learn first, rather than in what to start
implementing a major system, I'd chose Scala over Erlang.

Erlang's big feature over Scala (besides my impression that it has a
slightly more functional "feel") is its concurrent process and messaging
system, which is really a run-time thing rather than a language thing,
and which is a concept that's already reasonably familiar (in rather
less sophisticated form) to many programmers already.

Scala, on the other hand, offers a fairly sophisticated type system
including algebraic types, which is a concept rarely seen outside
of the FP world (ML and its relatives such as Haskell). That's very
mind-expanding, and well worth learning about.

You might also consider learning Haskell (or one of its relatives such
as Clean), which I consider to have more new concepts than any other
language out there except for perhaps Oz.

cjs
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