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FWIW, I've been enjoying Elixir a lot for the past few years.  It's an =
Actor-based, dynamically typed, FP language that runs on the Erlang VM.  =
It has Rubyish syntax, pattern matching, syntactic macros, lightweight =
processes, a message-passing framework, supervision trees, and other =
cool stuff.

I will note, however, that Elixir programming tends to be rather =
different from the stuff I've been doing for the past 50 years.  For =
example, processing pipelines tend to replace sets of nested loops...

-r

> On Feb 20, 2020, at 09:24, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:
>=20
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 08:23:08 -0800 Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
>>=20
>>    Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You
>>    like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.
>=20
> Go is quite salty! Erlang even more so.
>=20
>>    A computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who can't
>>    program state machines.
>=20
> I have written both event based (state machine) and thread
> based programs.  Each style has its pros and cons. Control
> flow is cleaner in threads but managing shared state is
> trickier.  In state machines managing state is easier but
> control flow is a pain.  Not to mention state machine don't
> benefit from multiple h/w threads.