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		Xichekolas on Jan 15, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Erlang: What the Cool Kids Are Doing It sounds weird at first to have variables that don't really vary, but it works out quite nicely.

jward on Jan 16, 2008 [–]

It's sad. After coding in Haskell and Erlang I moved back to Python for a project and my code was just littered with extra variables. I had become so used to the functional way that varying variables just seemed so wrong and foreign.

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