Comparing Erlang and Haskell on concurrency

[Eric Ivancich]

Mark Chu-Carroll used to do research at IBM but moved on to Google.
He has a nice math-oriented blog called Good Math, Bad Math:

http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/

If you look through the blog's archives, you'll find that he does a
very nice job of taking math topics, such as graphs (i.e., nodes and
edges, not bar charts), and giving a nice overview of them. Sometimes
he'll focus on a topic in more detial through a series of posts.

One of his interests is programming languages. And he's now exploring
Erlang and creating a series of posts as he moves through the
language. Here's the first entry in the series:

http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2007/11/erlang_a_language_for_function.php

In the post, he says he's unhappy w/ Haskell's concurrency
capabilities, and that's one reason why he's taking a look at Erlang.

Well, someone from the Haskell community took issue with M C-C's
characterization of Haskell, and posted a response:

http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/blog/2007/11/26#no-headaches

I'd like to see more of a back-and-forth, to get a better sense of the
differences b/w Erlang and Haskell.

Anyway, I found those two posts interesting to read.

Eric

P.S. M C-C is using older Erlang documentation and has some more
kludgy than it needed to be Erlang code.