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By puredanger
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Published: Aug 01 2008 / 04:52

Thinking About Concurrency Oriented Programming
A realization hit me this morning while I was brushing my teeth. I was meditating on the relationship between classes and objects in OO languages and Erlang’s modules and processes.
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AlainODea replied ago:

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I think this is something Java and Erlang developers can finally agree on. OO is a good thing. I got the false impression that this approach is considered bad practice in Erlang. Upon review this OO approach to using processes is used extensively in the standard library and is the foundation of the OTP behaviours.

I think this differentiates Erlang from other functional programming languages. Erlang's processes and message-passing effectively makes OO abstractions easy that I imagine would be a hassle in pure FP languages.

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