And the most annoying thing: students compare their advanced knowledge in Java/Ruby (2 years at least) with very basic in Erlang (2 hours).
@AveViort give the mutable vs immutable state example and how it eases debugging.
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@FrancescoC gave it, some of them are still struggling. They just got used to Java and Ruby, it'll take some time to understand Erlang. -
@AveViort that is why they are taking a Master's. Every new language paradigm will make them stronger. -
@FrancescoC one of them asked: how is it possible to write code without objects? That's one of problems, they think only OOP is a modern way
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