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Solving the wrong problem

Joe Armstrong · 28 Mar 2013

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  1. We (that is Erlang folks) are solving the right problem, the rest of the world (non Erlang people) are solving the wrong problem.
  2. The road to automatic parallelisation of sequential programs is littered with corpses. It can't be done.

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